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ArticleNeuroscience of consciousness2023

When do parts form wholes? Integrated information as the restriction on mereological composition.

Kelvin J McQueen, Naotsugu Tsuchiya

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Article in Neuroscience of consciousness, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kelvin J McQueenPhilosophy Department, Chapman University, California, United States.
Naotsugu TsuchiyaTurner Institute for Brain and Mental Health & School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4216-8701

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Under what conditions are material objects, such as particles, parts of a whole object? This is the composition question and is a longstanding open question in philosophy. Existing attempts to specify a non-trivial

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composition questionconsciousnessfeedback connectivityIITintegrated information theorymereology

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PMID37275559
PMCPMC10237036

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