From a great New York Times article, Sizing Up Consciousness by Its Bits by Carl Zimmer, I was led to this paper: Consciousness as Integrated Information: a Provisional Manifesto by Dr. Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As anyone who has read my writing is aware, I'm fascinated by the emergent phenomenon of consciousness. From the paper's abstract: The integrated information theory (IIT) starts from phenomenology and makes use of thought experiments to claim that consciousness is integrated information.
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