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INFORMATION PARTICLES. “Integrated Information Decomposition (ΦID), which establishes information atoms not only in terms of the relationship between the predictors, but also between the targets.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

ANT HIVE. “An emergent behavior or emergent property can appear when a number of simple entities (agents) operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviors as a collective. If emergence happens over disparate size scales, then the reason is usually a causal relation across different scales. In other words, there is often a form of top-down feedback in systems with emergent properties.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence View in LinkedIn

EMERGENT CONSCIOUSNESS. “In this way, the more nuanced view on neural information dynamics offered by ΦID offers the promise of further insights for our understanding of consciousness as an emergent phenomenon. Developing procedures to either identify emergent features, or to efficiently calculate emergent capacity in large systems are important avenues for future work.” (ΦID = Integrated Information Decomposition). https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

DE-COUPLING. “Interestingly, analysis of fMRI data showed that loss of consciousness due to brain injury corresponds to a reduction of integrated information and causal emergence in the brain.” (fMRI = functional MRI). https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

CONSCIOUSNESS. “Causal emergence (de-coupling) increases both along the cortical hierarchy of the human brain, and across the gap from non-human primates to humans. Relatedly, there has been a long-standing debate on whether consciousness could be viewed as an emergent phenomenon enabled by the complex interactions between neurons.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

“SYNERGY is also more prevalent as a proportion of total information in the brains of humans than in the brains of macaques, corroborating the link between synergistic neural information, evolution, and higher cognitive capacities.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower" "Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees" "Is my destroyer." "And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose" "My youth is bent by the same wintry fever." " https://lnkd.in/dEkmDe2 View in LinkedIn

QUAINT MYTH. “There are there­fore, powerful prima facie reasons for doubting that language is essential for conscious experience, and in consequence for wondering whether the significance of language for cognitive functions has been misestimated.” (Excellent article). https://lnkd.in/epRnFgUf View in LinkedIn

BRAIN SYSTEM. “Remarkably, analyses of human fMRI data have identified a gradient with redundancy-dominated sensory and motor regions at one end, and synergy-dominated association cortices dedicated to multimodal integration and high-order cognition at the other end.” (fMRI = functional MRI). https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

TESTING THE THEORY. “Moving from simulations to empirical data, the ΦID framework for causal emergence was also adopted to study how motor behaviour might be emergent from brain activity. Results indicated that the motion-related signal is an emergent feature of the macaque’s brain activity.” (ΦID = Integrated Information Decomposition). https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn