Measuring Integrated Information from the Decoding Perspective.

ABSTRACT: Accumulating evidence indicates that the capacity to integrate information in the brain is a prerequisite for consciousness. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness provides a mathematical approach to quantifying the information integrated in a system, called integrated information, Φ. Integrated information is defined theoretically as the amount of information a system generates as a whole, above and beyond the amount of information its parts independently generate. IIT predicts that the amount of integrated information in the brain should reflect levels of consciousness. Empirical evaluation of this theory requires computing integrated information from neural data acquired from experiments, although difficulties with using the original measure Φ precludes such computations.

SUBMITTER: Oizumi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4721632 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature