Two Levels of Integrated Information Theory: From Autonomous Systems to Conscious Life.
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) September 5, 2024 Zenan Ruan, Hengwei Li
Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is one of the most prominent candidates for a theory of consciousness, although it has received much criticism for trying to live up to expectations. Based on the relevance of three issues generalized from the developments of IITs, we have summarized the main ideas of IIT into two levels. At the second level, IIT claims to be strictly anchoring consciousness,...