In numerous articles and a book, the neuroscientist Giulio Tononi has advocated the information integration theory of consciousness. He claims that consciousness in humans and other entities is the ...

In this Opinion article, we discuss how integrated information theory accounts for several aspects of the relationship between consciousness and the brain. Integrated information theory starts from ...

Neuroscientists who write about consciousness used to be dismissed as undergoing “philosopause,” the abandonment of science for philosophical speculations, such as finding God among the neurons. But ...