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)
Neurons firing together don't just wire together; they integrate to create experience.
Awareness arises from the causal power of integrated wholes.
In sleep, the brain partitions information to protect consciousness.
Consciousness is the intrinsic nature of causal structures.
The mind is what the brain does when it integrates.
Without integration, there is no 'what it is like'.
Panpsychism finds a quantitative basis in IIT.
The zombie problem dissolves when we consider phi.
Experience is the shape of integrated information.
To be conscious is to have a high phi value.
The brain's architecture maximizes integrated information.
Consciousness evolves to integrate more effectively.
In coma, integration breaks, and so does awareness.
The self is an integrated information structure.
Measuring consciousness means computing phi.
Dreamless sleep is low phi.
AI consciousness requires genuine integration, not simulation.
The quality of experience reflects the quality of integration.
Consciousness is fundamental, not emergent.
In the IIT framework, every system has some degree of consciousness.
Contemporaries of Giulio Tononi
Other Cognitive Sciences born within 50 years of Giulio Tononi (1960).