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Theory within consciousness research
Phi; the symbol used for integrated information
Integrated information theory (IIT) proposes a mathematical model for the consciousness of a system. It comprises a framework ultimately intended to explain why some physical systems (such as human brains) are conscious,[1] and to be capable of providing a concrete inference about whether any physical system is conscious, to what degree, and what particular experience it is having; why they feel the particular way they do in particular states (e.g. why our visual field appears extended when we gaze out at the night sky),[2] and what it would take for other physical systems to be conscious (Are other animals conscious? Might the whole universe be?).[3]
According to IIT, a system's consciousness (what it is like subjectively) is conjectured to be identical to its causal properties (what it is like objectively). Therefore it should be possible to account for the conscious experience of a physical system by unfolding its complete causal powers.[4]
IIT was proposed by neuroscientist Giulio Tononi in 2004.[5] Despite significant interest, IIT remains controversial and has been widely criticized, with some claiming that it is unfalsifiable pseudoscience.[6]
^Haun, Andrew; Tononi, Giulio (December 2019). "Why Does Space Feel the Way it Does? Towards a Principled Account of Spatial Experience". Entropy. 21 (12): 1160. Bibcode:2019Entrp..21.1160H. doi:10.3390/e21121160. PMC 7514505.
^Tononi, Giulio; Koch, Christof (19 May 2015). "Consciousness: here, there and everywhere?". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 370 (1668): 20140167. doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0167. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 4387509. PMID 25823865.
^Tononi, Giulio; Boly, Melanie; Massimini, Marcello; Koch, Christof (2016). "Integrated information theory: from consciousness to its physical substrate". Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 17 (7): 450–461. doi:10.1038/nrn.2016.44. PMID 27225071. S2CID 21347087.
^Tononi, Giulio (2 November 2004). "An information integration theory of consciousness". BMC Neuroscience. 5 (1): 42. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-5-42. ISSN 1471-2202. PMC 543470. PMID 15522121.
^Mariana Lenharo (20 September 2023). "Consciousness theory slammed as 'pseudoscience' — sparking uproar". Nature.
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