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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition.

Pedro A M Mediano, Fernando E Rosas, Andrea I Luppi, Robin L Carhart-Harris, Daniel Bor, Anil K Seth, Adam B Barrett

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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7 authors.

Pedro A M Mediano *Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1789-5894
Fernando E Rosas *Department of Informatics, Sussex AI and Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7790-6183
Andrea I LuppiDepartment of Psychiatry, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-3461-6431
Robin L Carhart-HarrisCentre for Complexity Science, Department of Mathematics, and Centre for Psychedelic Research, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Daniel BorDepartment of Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom.
Anil K SethDepartment of Informatics, Sussex AI and Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1421-6051
Adam B BarrettDepartment of Informatics, Sussex AI and Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom.

Funding

EC | European Research Council (ERC) 01019254EC | H2020 | PRIORITY 'Excellent science' | H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) 702981Gates Cambridge Trust OPP 114Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust (WT) 210920/Z/18/Z
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Abstract

Our ability to understand and control complex systems of many interacting parts remains limited. A key challenge is that we still do not know how best to describe-and quantify-the many-to-many dynamical interactions that characterize their complexity. To address this limitation, we introduce the mathematical framework of Integrated Information Decomposition, or [Formula: see text]ID. [Formula: see text]ID provides a comprehensive framework to disentangle and characterize the information dynamics of complex multivariate systems. On the theoretical side, [Formula: see text]ID reveals the existence of previously unreported modes of collective information flow, providing tools to express well-known measures of information transfer, information storage, and dynamical complexity as aggregates of these modes, thereby overcoming some of their known theoretical shortcomings. On the empirical side, we validate our theoretical results with computational models and examples from over 1,000 biological, social, physical, and synthetic dynamical systems. Altogether, [Formula: see text]ID improves our understanding of the behavior of widely used measures for characterizing complex systems across disciplines and leads to new more refined analyses of dynamical complexity.

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Models, TheoreticalComputer Simulationcomplexitydynamical systemsinformation theoryintegrated information

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PMID40982679
PMCPMC12501198

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