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The concept of information has emerged as a language in its own right, bridging several disciplines that analyze natural phenomena and man-made systems. Integrated information has been introduced as a metric to quantify the amount of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-10 Alberto Hernández-Espinosa , Héctor Zenil , Narsis A. Kiani , Jesper Tegnér

The scientific study of consciousness is currently undergoing a critical transition in the form of a rapidly evolving scientific debate regarding whether or not currently proposed theories can be assessed for their scientific validity. At…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Jake R. Hanson , Sara I. Walker

This article is a brief guide to the field of algorithmic information theory (AIT), its underlying philosophy, and the most important concepts. AIT arises by mixing information theory and computation theory to obtain an objective and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Marcus Hutter

Developments in machine learning and computing power suggest that artificial general intelligence is within reach. This raises the question of artificial consciousness: if a computer were to be functionally equivalent to a human, being able…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Graham Findlay , William Marshall , Larissa Albantakis , Isaac David , William GP Mayner , Christof Koch , Giulio Tononi

As neuroscientific theories of consciousness continue to proliferate, the need to assess their similarities and differences - as well as their predictive and explanatory power - becomes ever more pressing. Recently, a number of structured…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-18 Andrew W. Corcoran , Andrew M. Haun , Reinder Dorman , Giulio Tononi , Karl J. Friston , Cyriel M. A. Pennartz , TWCF , : , INTREPID Consortium

An outstanding challenge with the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness (IIT) is to find a way of rapidly and accurately calculating integrated information from neural data. A number of measures of integrated information based on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-05 Daniel Toker , Friedrich Sommer

The ability to integrate information in the brain is considered to be an essential property for cognition and consciousness. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) hypothesizes that the amount of integrated information ($\Phi$) in the brain is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-04 Jun Kitazono , Ryota Kanai , Masafumi Oizumi

A growing interest in complex networks theory results in an ongoing demand for new analytical tools. We propose a novel measure based on information theory that provides a new perspective for a better understanding of networked systems:…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-30 Aline Viol , Vesna Vuksanović , Philipp Hövel

Collective behaviour is known to be the result of diverse dynamics and is sometimes likened to a living system. Although many studies have revealed the dynamics of various collective behaviours, their main focus was on the information…

Quantifying integrated information is a leading approach towards building a fundamental theory of consciousness. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) has gained attention in this regard due to its theoretically strong framework. However, it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Mohit Virmani , Nithin Nagaraj

Information processing in neural systems can be described and analysed at multiple spatiotemporal scales. Generally, information at lower levels is more fine-grained and can be coarse-grained in higher levels. However, information processed…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-21 Acer Y. C. Chang , Martin Biehl , Yen Yu , Ryota Kanai

The problem of explaining the relationship between subjective experience and physical reality remains difficult and unresolved. In most explanations, consciousness is epiphenomenal, without causal power. The most notable exception is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-26 John Sanfey

In this article we review Tononi's (2008) theory of consciousness as integrated information. We argue that previous formalizations of integrated information (e.g. Griffith, 2014) depend on information loss. Since lossy integration would…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Phil Maguire , Philippe Moser , Rebecca Maguire , Virgil Griffith

Artificial Intelligence for Theorem Proving has given rise to a plethora of benchmarks and methodologies, particularly in Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP). Research in the area is fragmented, with a diverse set of approaches being spread…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Sean Lamont , Michael Norrish , Amir Dezfouli , Christian Walder , Paul Montague

The pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a central goal in language model development, in which consciousness-like processing could serve as a key facilitator. While current language models are not conscious, they exhibit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Hamid Reza Akbari , Mohammad Hossein Sameti , Amir M. Mansourian , Mohammad Hossein Rohban , Hossein Sameti

Information Theory (IT) has been used in Machine Learning (ML) from early days of this field. In the last decade, advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have led to surprising improvements in many applications of ML. The result has been a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Hassan Hafez-Kolahi , Shohreh Kasaei

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 properties of experience (axioms), infers the necessary and…

The paper considers a non-reductionist theory of consciousness, which is not reducible to theories of reality and to physiological or psychological theories. Following D.I.Dubrovsky's "informational approach" to the "Mind-Brain Problem", we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-02 E. E. Vityaev

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 structure, composed of distinctions and their relations,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-03 William G. P. Mayner , Bjørn Erik Juel , Giulio Tononi

The Information Plane is a conceptual framework used to analyze the flow of information in neural networks, but traditional methods based on activations may not fully capture the dynamics of information processing. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jaouad Dabounou , Amine Baazzouz