Giulio Tononi
Italian-American psychiatrist who proposed IIT for quantifying consciousness.
Most quoted
"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine, but consciousness makes it personal."
— from Book: Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul, 2012
"The more distinctions a system can make, and the more these distinctions are integrated, the more conscious it is."
— from Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: An Updated Account, 2014
"The brain is a complex of causes and effects, and consciousness is what it feels like to be that complex."
— from Interview, 2012
All quotes by Giulio Tononi (98)
The brain is not just processing information; it is generating it.
Consciousness is the feeling of being a particular system of integrated information.
The more a system is irreducible to its parts, the more conscious it is.
Consciousness is a property of the whole, not just the sum of its parts.
The brain is a self-organizing system that creates its own reality.
Consciousness is not an illusion; it's the most real thing there is.
The more information a system has about itself, the more conscious it is.
Consciousness is about the intrinsic causal power of a system.
The brain is a marvel of integration, and that's why it's conscious.
Consciousness is not just a byproduct; it's what defines us.
The more a system can distinguish among its own states, the more conscious it is.
Consciousness is a fundamental aspect of reality, not just a human phenomenon.
The brain is a system that is constantly trying to make sense of itself.
Consciousness is the feeling of being a unified entity.
The more a system can constrain its own future states, the more conscious it is.
Consciousness is not just about processing information, but about having it.
The brain is a system that generates its own internal world.
Consciousness is the feeling of being a specific point of view.
The more a system is its own cause, the more conscious it is.
Consciousness is not about what you observe, but what you are.
Contemporaries of Giulio Tononi
Other Cognitive Sciences born within 50 years of Giulio Tononi (1960).