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Integrated Information Theory — Tononi & collaborators

IIT’s formal bet: consciousness tracks irreducible cause–effect structure (Φ). Adored and attacked in equal measure.

Giulio Tononi et al. · IIT / academic literature

IIT remains one of the most ambitious mathematical theories of consciousness — and one of the most contested (see adversarial collaborations with rival theories).

We include it because SI and BCI conversations eventually collide with ‘does this system feel anything?’

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