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1 claim from 1 paper

  1. Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science

    Measuring Integrated Information from the Decoding Perspective

    Oizumi, Амари, Yanagawa, Fujii and Tsuchiya · PLoS Computational Biology · 2016

    The paper derives a new practical measure of integrated information, Φ*, from mismatched decoding in information theory, and gives a formula for it that can be applied to neural data under a Gaussian assumption.

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    1. Supported · 71%The authors show that their new measure, Φ*, stays between the lower and upper limits that a measure of integrated information is required to respect.“We show that Φ* is properly bounded from below and above, as required, as a measure of integrated information.”

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