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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Mechanism Integrated Information.

Leonardo S Barbosa, William Marshall, Larissa Albantakis, Giulio Tononi

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Intrinsic units: identifying a system's causal grain.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026
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  11. System Integrated Information.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  12. Fusions of Consciousness.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  16. Not All Structure and Dynamics Are Equal.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  17. Of maps and grids.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Leonardo S BarbosaDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA.
William MarshallDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA.
Larissa AlbantakisDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1000-9917
Giulio TononiDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA.

Funding

Templeton World Charity Foundation TWCF0216Tiny Blue Dot Foundation UW 133AAG3451
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness starts from essential phenomenological properties, which are then translated into postulates that any physical system must satisfy in order to specify the physical substrate of consciousness. We recently introduced an information measure (Barbosa et al., 2020) that captures three postulates of IIT-existence, intrinsicality and information-and is unique. Here we show that the new measure also satisfies the remaining postulates of IIT-integration and exclusion-and create the framework that identifies maximally irreducible mechanisms. These mechanisms can then form maximally irreducible systems, which in turn will specify the physical substrate of conscious experience.

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causationconsciousnessexistenceintrinsic

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PMID33803765
PMCPMC8003304

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