Integrated information theory (IIT) 4.0: formulating the properties of phenomenal existence in physical terms

L Albantakis, L Barbosa, G Findlay… - PLoS computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
This paper presents Integrated Information Theory (IIT) 4.0. IIT aims to account for the
properties of experience in physical (operational) terms. It identifies the essential properties …

How to be an integrated information theorist without losing your body

I Cea, CM Signorelli - Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Integrated Information Theory 4.0 (IIT) is one of the leading frameworks in the neuroscience
of consciousness (Consortium et al., 2023; Seth and Bayne, 2022; Signorelli et al., 2021). It …

Computing the Integrated Information of a Quantum Mechanism

L Albantakis, R Prentner, I Durham - Entropy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Originally conceived as a theory of consciousness, integrated information theory (IIT)
provides a theoretical framework intended to characterize the compositional causal …

The fundamental tension in Integrated Information Theory 4.0's Realist idealism

I Cea, N Negro, CM Signorelli - Entropy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is currently one of the most influential scientific theories of
consciousness. Here, we focus specifically on a metaphysical aspect of the theory's most …

Upper bounds for integrated information

A Zaeemzadeh, G Tononi - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Originally developed as a theory of consciousness, integrated information theory provides a
mathematical framework to quantify the causal irreducibility of systems and subsets of units …

Dissociating Artificial Intelligence from Artificial Consciousness

G Findlay, W Marshall, L Albantakis, I David… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Developments in machine learning and computing power suggest that artificial general
intelligence is within reach. This raises the question of artificial consciousness: if a computer …

Intrinsic meaning, perception, and matching

WGP Mayner, BE Juel, G Tononi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.21111, 2024 - arxiv.org
Integrated information theory (IIT) argues that the substrate of consciousness is a maximally
irreducible complex of units. Together, subsets of the complex specify a cause-effect …

Why does time feel the way it does? Towards a principled account of temporal experience

R Comolatti, M Grasso, G Tononi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.13198, 2024 - arxiv.org
Time flows, or at least the time of our experience does. Can we provide an objective account
of why experience, confined to the short window of the conscious present, encompasses a …

Shannon information and integrated information: message and meaning

A Zaeemzadeh, G Tononi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.10626, 2024 - arxiv.org
Information theory, introduced by Shannon, has been extremely successful and influential as
a mathematical theory of communication. Shannon's notion of information does not consider …

On the probabilistic character of irreducible mental causation

DR Dimitrijević - Synthese, 2024 - Springer
It has recently been remarked that the argument for physicalism from the causal closure of
the physical is incomplete. It is only effective against mental causation manifested in the …