Closing in on consciousness

[brandondedicant]

Christoff Koch, an associate of the late Francis Crick, offers the rudiments of a scientific investigation of consciousness.

Most interestingly, he refers to Tononi's idea that consciousness is a function of the complexity of an entity, and can be quanitifed precisely in terms of phi, or bits of information among interacting parts.  An electron,

Comments

[tarotbyhic]

Thanks for always posting such interesting articles.

I thought I'd pass this along if you hadn't seen it. I found it a very interesting ongoing shift (and hopefully, you might as well :).

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/04/24/open-science-and-access-to-medical-research/