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 binding problem is integration in action.
Waking up is reintegrating the world.
Phi quantifies the essence of mind.
Conscious states are maximally irreducible.
The brain is a phi factory.
Without cause-effect power, no experience.
Integration is the thread that weaves reality.
Consciousness isn't magic; it's mathematics.
The mind emerges from the integration of parts into wholes.
Sleep protects the brain by reducing integration.
To know thyself is to compute thy phi.
Experience is private because integration is intrinsic.
The universe might be conscious if phi is high enough.
Anesthesia disrupts integration, erasing the self.
Consciousness is the measure of a system's causal repertoire.
In the dance of neurons, integration leads.
Life's meaning lies in the richness of integrated experiences.
Phi is the spark of awareness.
Contemporaries of Giulio Tononi
Other Cognitive Sciences born within 50 years of Giulio Tononi (1960).