Consciousness & Reality (C&R) Colloquium 2024-25 Series

INTEGRATED INFORMATION THEORY 4.0 - OF CAUSAL BORDERS AND CAUSAL STRUCTURES

LARISSA ALBANTAKIS
Professor of Computational Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Integrated information theory (IIT) aims to provide a scientific account of consciousness and its place in nature. IIT starts from the fact that one’s experience exists, right now, and it uses introspection and reason to characterize the properties of experience. From here, IIT asks how we might account for experience in physical terms—that is, in terms of a substrate we can observe and manipulate, and offers and answer in terms of causal borders and causal structures.

ABOUT THE EVENT
This lecture will be accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. Caltech, Stanford, MIT and IMICS members from all divisions are welcome to join. Select questions from the Q&A window will be answered after the lecture.

ABOUT THE SERIES
The Consciousness & Reality colloquium series promotes interdisciplinary investigations on mind, cognition, consciousness, and the nature of reality. This colloquium is the second in the 2023-24 series