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Measuring consciousness
Giulio Tononi has a theory of consciousness based on the flow of information. "...he has untethered the theory of consciousness from the physical brain."
New theory doesn’t limit consciousness to the brain
If Tononi is right, and integrated information actually is consciousness, then consciousness itself is no longer restricted to the inside of a head. As long as it has the right informational specs, any system, whether it’s made of nerve cells, silicon chips or light beams, could possess consciousness.Such a realization alters the consciousness conversation. In a world full of objects that can move information around quickly — an octopus’s brain, a tree’s root system, the Internet — the discussion of whether an entity is conscious may lose its meaning. Instead, the question becomes, “How conscious is it?”
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Permalink Reply by John Bourgein on -
Ruth,
I suspect that Guilio Tononi's work on consciousness can be considered in the context of the holographic principle in so far as the notion of information being essentially a series of 0's and 1's and our brain providing us with a "data projection" of a "data projection".
BTW, I vote for Juan Maldacena getting the Physics Nobel for providing the translation dictionary of two dimensional data on the surface of a volume to the three dimensional holographic projection in the volume (possibly our universe)!
Accidentally posted this comment on the wall, my apologies for a double dip:-) -
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Permalink Reply by John Bourgein on
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Ruth,
I suspect that Guilio Tononi's work on consciousness can be considered in the context of the holographic principle in so far as the notion of information being essentially a series of 0's and 1's and our brain providing us with a "data projection" of a "data projection".
BTW, I vote for Juan Maldacena getting the Physics Nobel for providing the translation dictionary of two dimensional data on the surface of a volume to the three dimensional holographic projection in the volume (possibly our universe)!
Accidentally posted this comment on the wall, my apologies for a double dip:-) -
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