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SUBMITTER: Zaeemzadeh A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11326638 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zaeemzadeh Alireza A Tononi Giulio G
PLoS computational biology 20240805 8
Originally developed as a theory of consciousness, integrated information theory provides a mathematical framework to quantify the causal irreducibility of systems and subsets of units in the system. Specifically, mechanism integrated information quantifies how much of the causal powers of a subset of units in a state, also referred to as a mechanism, cannot be accounted for by its parts. If the causal powers of the mechanism can be fully explained by its parts, it is reducible and its integrate ...[more]