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Integrated Information in Process Theories

Logic in Computer Science 2020-02-19 v1 Category Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We demonstrate how the key notions of Tononi et al.'s Integrated Information Theory (IIT) can be studied within the simple graphical language of process theories, i.e. symmetric monoidal categories. This allows IIT to be generalised to a broad range of physical theories, including as a special case the Quantum IIT of Zanardi, Tomka and Venuti.

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@article{arxiv.2002.07654,
  title  = {Integrated Information in Process Theories},
  author = {Sean Tull and Johannes Kleiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.07654},
  year   = {2020}
}

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18 pages, 4 page appendix

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