A comment on Tononi & Koch (2015) ‘Consciousness: here, there and everywhere?’

It is a beautiful idea that consciousness could in some sense be identified with intrinsic integrated information, and it is fascinating to contemplate a theory of consciousness that has the potential to explain the relationship between physical structure and conscious phenomenology [[1][1]].

[1]  Susan Pockett.  Field theories of consciousness , 2013, Scholarpedia.

[2]  C. Koch,et al.  Consciousness: here, there and everywhere? , 2015, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

[3]  Adam B. Barrett,et al.  An integration of integrated information theory with fundamental physics , 2014, Front. Psychol..

[4]  G. Tononi,et al.  A Theoretically Based Index of Consciousness Independent of Sensory Processing and Behavior , 2013, Science Translational Medicine.