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High Throughput Single-cell and Multiple-cell Micro-encapsulation
Published on: June 15, 2012
IIT, half masked and half disfigured
Giulio Tononi1, Melanie Boly1, Matteo Grasso1
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI53719, USAgtononi@wisc.eduhttps://centerforsleepandconsciousness.psychiatry.wisc.edu/people/principal-investigator-giulio-tononi/boly@neurology.wisc.eduhttps://centerforsleepandconsciousness.psychiatry.wisc.edu/people/melanie-boly-md-phd/grasso2@wisc.eduhttps://centerforsleepandconsciousness.psychiatry.wisc.edu/people/matteo-grasso-phd/bjuel@wisc.eduhttps://centerforsleepandconsciousness.psychiatry.wisc.edu/people/bjorn-erik-juel-phd/mayner@wisc.eduhttps://centerforsleepandconsciousness.psychiatry.wisc.edu/people/william-g-p-mayner/wmarshall3@wisc.eduhttps://centerforsleepandconsciousness.psychiatry.wisc.edu/people/william-marshall-phd/.
Abstract:
The target article misrepresents the foundations of integrated information theory (IIT) and ignores many essential publications. It, thus, falls to this lead commentary to outline the axioms and postulates of IIT and correct major misconceptions. The commentary also explains why IIT starts from phenomenology and why it predicts that only select physical substrates can support consciousness. Finally, it highlights that IIT's account of experience - a cause-effect structure quantified by integrated information - has nothing to do with "information transfer."
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