A Shared Entropic Axis Spans States of Consciousness Across Pharmacological and Clinical Conditions
bioRxiv Preprint Server June 12, 2026 Dante Sebastián Galván Rial, Gabriel A. Della Bella, Lorina Naci et al. preprint
A general account of how diverse states of consciousness arise from brain activity requires a quantitative framework that generalises across them. The Entropic Brain Theory proposes that states of consciousness can be ordered along a single dimension defined by the entropy of spontaneous neural activity, but this prediction has not been tested across pharmacological and clinical perturbations...