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On the utility of toy models for theories of consciousness
Larissa Albantakis
Toy models are highly idealized and deliberately simplified models that retain only the essential features of a system in order to explore specific theoretical questions. Long used…
Integrated information theory (IIT) 4.0: Formulating the properties of phenomenal existence in physical terms
Larissa Albantakis, Leonardo Barbosa, Graham Findlay +13
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 prope…
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…
Only what exists can cause: An intrinsic powers view of free will
Giulio Tononi, Larissa Albantakis, Melanie Boly +3
This essay addresses the implications of integrated information theory (IIT) for free will. IIT is a theory of what consciousness is and of how its presence and quality can be acco…
What we are is more than what we do
Larissa Albantakis, Giulio Tononi
If we take the subjective character of consciousness seriously, consciousness becomes a matter of "being" rather than "doing". Because "doing" can be dissociated from "being", func…
A macro agent and its actions
Larissa Albantakis, Francesco Massari, Maggie Beheler-Amass +1
In science, macro level descriptions of the causal interactions within complex, dynamical systems are typically deemed convenient, but ultimately reducible to a complete causal acc…
PyPhi: A toolbox for integrated information theory
William G. P. Mayner, William Marshall, Larissa Albantakis +3
Integrated information theory provides a mathematical framework to fully characterize the cause-effect structure of a physical system. Here, we introduce PyPhi, a Python software p…
A Tale of Two Animats: What does it take to have goals?
Larissa Albantakis
What does it take for a system, biological or not, to have goals? Here, this question is approached in the context of in silico artificial evolution. By examining the informational…
Black-boxing and cause-effect power
William Marshall, Larissa Albantakis, Giulio Tononi
Reductionism assumes that causation in the physical world occurs at the micro level, excluding the emergence of macro-level causation. We challenge this reductionist assumption by…