3 papers
q-bio.NC2025
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…
cs.AI2025
Dissociating Artificial Intelligence from Artificial Consciousness
Graham Findlay, William Marshall, Larissa Albantakis +4
Developments in machine learning and computing power suggest that artificial general intelligence is within reach. This raises the question of artificial consciousness: if a comput…
q-bio.NC2024
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…