The Emergence of Integrated Information, Complexity, and 'Consciousness' at Criticality.
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) March 16, 2020 Nicholas J M Popiel, Sina Khajehabdollahi, Pubuditha M. Abeyasinghe et al.
Integrated Information Theory (IIT) posits that integrated information ( Φ ) represents the quantity of a conscious experience. Here, the generalized Ising model was used to calculate Φ as a function of temperature in toy models of fully connected neural networks. A Monte-Carlo simulation was run on 159 normalized, random, positively weighted networks analogous to small five-node excitatory...