Thermodynamics of consciousness: A non-invasive perturbational framework
bioRxiv Preprint Server December 9, 2025 Tomas Berjaga-Buisan, Juan Manuel Monti, Martina Cortada et al. preprint
The quest for reliable and objective measures of consciousness is critical in basic and clinical neuroscience. Across species, the Perturbational Complexity Index (PCI) has emerged as a robust empirical marker by directly perturbing the brain, yet its underlying principles of physics are not fully understood. Here, we bridge this gap by introducing a non-invasive framework based on generative...