Network algorithmics and the emergence of information integration in cortical models
arXiv Preprint Archive December 27, 2010 Andre Nathan, Valmir C. Barbosa
An information-theoretic framework known as integrated information theory (IIT) has been introduced recently for the study of the emergence of consciousness in the brain [D. Balduzzi and G. Tononi, PLoS Comput. Biol. 4, e1000091 (2008)]. IIT purports that this phenomenon is to be equated with the generation of information by the brain surpassing the information which the brain's constituents...