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Max Tegmark

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Consciousness as a State of Matter

arXiv Preprint Archive May 2, 2014 Max Tegmark

I examine the hypothesis that consciousness can be understood as a state of matter, "perceptronium", with distinctive information processing abilities. I explore five basic principles that may distinguish conscious matter from other physical systems such as solids, liquids and gases: the information, integration, independence, dynamics and utility principles. This approach generalizes Giulio...