Emergence of consciousness and complexity amidst diffuse delta rhythms: the paradox of Angelman syndrome
bioRxiv Preprint Server July 10, 2019 Joel Frohlich, Lynne M. Bird, John Dell’italia et al. preprint
Numerous theories link consciousness to informationally rich, complex neural dynamics. This idea is challenged by the observation that children with Angelman syndrome (AS), while fully conscious, display a hypersynchronous electroencephalogram (EEG) phenotype typical of information-poor dynamics associated with unconsciousness. If informational complexity theories are correct, then sufficiently...