5 papers
The Rosetta Stone and Levels of Principled Inference to the Experience of Another Mind
Kallum Robinson, Giulio Tononi, Naotsugu Tsuchiya +1
The classical problem of Other Minds has dogged philosophers for millennia; asking if we have any way to truly understand the experience of another mind. We know our own intrinsic…
Consciousness as Intrinsic Structure: Towards a Chemistry of Experience
Matteo Grasso, Jeremiah Hendren, Giulio Tononi
To be conscious is to have an experience - not a collection of phenomenal atoms, but a structured whole composed of distinctions and the relations that bind them. Integrated Inform…
Intrinsic cause-effect power: the tradeoff between differentiation and specification
William G. P. Mayner, William Marshall, Giulio Tononi
Integrated information theory (IIT) starts from the existence of consciousness and characterizes its essential properties: every experience is intrinsic, specific, unitary, definit…
Intrinsic meaning, perception, and matching
William G. P. Mayner, Bjørn Erik Juel, Giulio Tononi
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…
Shannon information and integrated information: message and meaning
Alireza Zaeemzadeh, Giulio Tononi
Information theory, introduced by Shannon, has been extremely successful and influential as a mathematical theory of communication. Shannon's notion of information does not conside…