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February 6, 2025·90 min

Giulio Tononi — IIT 4.0: Consciousness as Structure (2025)

Tononi presents the latest version of Integrated Information Theory: consciousness as an intrinsically defined cause-effect structure, with Φ as its quantitative measure.

A recent academic presentation of IIT 4.0. Tononi clarifies what exactly counts as the "structure" of consciousness and which substrates could in principle support it.

Why it matters for Neural Cosmology: integrated information theory offers a quantitative language in which consciousness enters the model as a property of particular network configurations, with no mysticism and with testable predictions.

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