Integrated Information Theory

OVERVIEW

Integrated information theory (IIT) is a theoretical framework for understanding consciousness developed by Dr. Giulio Tononi and his collaborators at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. For a general overview of the theory, please see the following publications:

• • Albantakis, L., Barbosa, L.S., Findlay, G., Grasso, M., Haun, A.M., Marshall, W., Mayner, W.G.P., Zaeemzadeh, A., Boly, M., Juel, B.E., Sasai, S., Fujii., K., David I., Hendren, J., Lang, J.P., Tononi, G. (2023). Integrated information theory (IIT) 4.0: Formulating the properties of phenomenal existence in physical terms. PLoS Computational Biology, 19(10), e1011465. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011465
    
  • Marshall, W., Grasso, M., Mayner, W.G.P., Zaeemzadeh, A., Barbosa, L.S., Chastain, E., Findlay, G., Sasai, S., Albantakis, L., Tononi, G. (2023). System Integrated information. Entropy, 25(2), 334. doi: 10.3390/e25020334
    
  • Tononi, G., Albantakis, A., Boly, M., Cirelli, C., Koch, C. (2022). Only what exists can cause: An intrinsic view of free will. arXiv: 2206.02069 [q-bio.NC]. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2206.02069
  • Ellia, F., Hendren, J., Grasso, M., Kozma, C., Mindt, G., Lang, J.P., Haun, A.M., Albantakis, L., Boly, M., and Tononi, G. (2021). Consciousness and the fallacy of misplaced objectivity. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab032. doi: 10.1093/nc/niab032
  • Haun, A.M., Tononi, G. (2019). Why Does Space Feel the Way it Does? Towards a Principled Account of Spatial Experience. Entropy, 21(12), 1160. doi: 10.3390/e21121160
  • Tononi, G., Boly, M., Massimini, M., & Koch, C. (2016). Integrated information theory: from consciousness to its physical substrate. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 17(7), 450-461. doi: nrn.2016.44
  • Tononi, G., & Koch, C. (2015). Consciousness: here, there and everywhere?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370(1668), 20140167. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0167
  • Tononi, Giulio (2015). Integrated Information Theory. Scholarpedia, 10(1):4164.
  • Oizumi, M., Albantakis, L., & Tononi, G. (2014). From the phenomenology to the mechanisms of consciousness: integrated information theory 3.0. PLoS computational biology, 10(5), e1003588. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003588

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