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most citedInformation Closure Theory of Consciousness

69 citations

16 papers

q-bio.NC2022★ 21 cited

System Integrated Information

William Marshall, Matteo Grasso, William GP Mayner +7

Integrated information theory (IIT) starts from consciousness itself and identifies a set of properties (axioms) that are true of every conceivable experience. The axioms are trans…

cs.AI2022★ 11 cited

Hybrid Life: Integrating Biological, Artificial, and Cognitive Systems

Manuel Baltieri, Hiroyuki Iizuka, Olaf Witkowski +2

Artificial life is a research field studying what processes and properties define life, based on a multidisciplinary approach spanning the physical, natural and computational scien…

gr-qc2022★ 1 cited

Emergent spacetime from a Berry-inspired dynamical gauge field coupled to electromagnetism

Patrick Copinger, Pablo Morales

Motivated by the fermionic Berry's phase in momentum space, we study a local Abelian phase in momentum space coupled to electromagnetism, for complex scalars in the phase-space wor…

cs.NE2022★ 9 cited

Preference-Learning Emitters for Mixed-Initiative Quality-Diversity Algorithms

Roberto Gallotta, Kai Arulkumaran, L. B. Soros

In mixed-initiative co-creation tasks, wherein a human and a machine jointly create items, it is important to provide multiple relevant suggestions to the designer. Quality-diversi…

gr-qc2022★ 10 cited

Curvature-induced pseudogauge fields from time-dependent geometries in graphene

Pablo A. Morales, Patrick Copinger

The massless Dirac equation is studied in curved spacetime on the (2+1)-dimensional graphene sheet in time-dependent geometries. Emergent pseudogauge fields are found both in the a…

cs.NE2022★ 7 cited

Surrogate Infeasible Fitness Acquirement FI-2Pop for Procedural Content Generation

Roberto Gallotta, Kai Arulkumaran, L. B. Soros

When generating content for video games using procedural content generation (PCG), the goal is to create functional assets of high quality. Prior work has commonly leveraged the fe…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 2 cited

Geometric Structures Induced by Deformations of the Legendre Transform

Pablo A. Morales, Jan Korbel, Fernando E. Rosas

The recent link discovered between generalized Legendre transforms and non-dually flat statistical manifolds suggests a fundamental reason behind the ubiquity of Rényi's divergence…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 12 cited

A generalization of the maximum entropy principle for curved statistical manifolds

Pablo A. Morales, Fernando E. Rosas

The maximum entropy principle (MEP) is one of the most prominent methods to investigate and model complex systems. Despite its popularity, the standard form of the MEP can only gen…

q-bio.NC2020★ 4 cited

A Technical Critique of Some Parts of the Free Energy Principle

Martin Biehl, Felix A. Pollock, Ryota Kanai

We summarize the original formulation of the free energy principle, and highlight some technical issues. We discuss how these issues affect related results involving generalised co…

cs.LG2019★ 22 cited

Analysing Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents Trained with Domain Randomisation

Tianhong Dai, Kai Arulkumaran, Tamara Gerbert +3

Deep reinforcement learning has the potential to train robots to perform complex tasks in the real world without requiring accurate models of the robot or its environment. A practi…

q-bio.NC2019★ 69 cited

Information Closure Theory of Consciousness

Acer Y. C. Chang, Martin Biehl, Yen Yu +1

Information processing in neural systems can be described and analysed at multiple spatiotemporal scales. Generally, information at lower levels is more fine-grained and can be coa…

cs.AI2018★ 15 cited

Boredom-driven curious learning by Homeo-Heterostatic Value Gradients

Yen Yu, Acer Y. C. Chang, Ryota Kanai

This paper presents the Homeo-Heterostatic Value Gradients (HHVG) algorithm as a formal account on the constructive interplay between boredom and curiosity which gives rise to effe…

cs.AI2018

Being curious about the answers to questions: novelty search with learned attention

Nicholas Guttenberg, Martin Biehl, Nathaniel Virgo +1

We investigate the use of attentional neural network layers in order to learn a `behavior characterization' which can be used to drive novelty search and curiosity-based policies.…

q-bio.NC2017★ 46 cited

Efficient Algorithms for Searching the Minimum Information Partition in Integrated Information Theory

Jun Kitazono, Ryota Kanai, Masafumi Oizumi

The ability to integrate information in the brain is considered to be an essential property for cognition and consciousness. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) hypothesizes that t…

cs.IT2017★ 38 cited

Fast and exact search for the partition with minimal information loss

Shohei Hidaka, Masafumi Oizumi

In analysis of multi-component complex systems, such as neural systems, identifying groups of units that share similar functionality will aid understanding of the underlying struct…

q-bio.NC2017★ 8 cited

Integrated information and dimensionality in continuous attractor dynamics

Satohiro Tajima, Ryota Kanai

There has been increasing interest in the integrated information theory (IIT) ofconsciousness, which hypothesizes that consciousness is integrated information withinneuronal dynami…