Neuroscience · Sleep & Consciousness
A topic within Sleep & Consciousness, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.
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Giulio Tononi
Proposes consciousness is identical to a system's integrated information, and that the amount and structure of that information determines the quality of an experience.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Adrien Doerig, Aaron Schurger, Kathryn Hess & Michael Herzog
Argues integrated information theory and related causal-structure theories cannot explain consciousness, because their own logic entails that an unfolded simulation of a conscious system would not itself be conscious.
link checked 17 Sept 2026