The emergence of integrated information, complexity, andconsciousness at criticality
Nicholas J. M. Popiel, Sina Khajehabdollahi, Pubuditha M. Abeyasinghe, Francesco Riganello, Emily S. Nichols, Adrian Mark Owen, Andrea Soddu
The paper uses the critical Ising model to show that integrated information, a measure of consciousness, undergoes a phase transition at criticality, suggesting consciousness emerges from self-organized criticality.
Entropy · Mar 16, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience