Integrated information theory (IIT) 4.0: Formulating the properties of phenomenal existence in physical terms.
PLoS Computational Biology October 17, 2023 Larissa Albantakis, Leonardo S. Barbosa, Graham Findlay et al.
This paper presents Integrated Information Theory (IIT) 4.0. IIT aims to account for the properties of experience in physical (operational) terms. It identifies the essential properties of experience (axioms), infers the necessary and sufficient properties that its substrate must satisfy (postulates), and expresses them in mathematical terms. In principle, the postulates can be applied to any...
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Brain
Consciousness
Models, neurological
Information theory