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Full Idea
The main claim of Tononi's 'integrated information theory' is that a system is conscious to the extent that its whole generates more information than its parts.
Gist of Idea
Maybe a system is conscious if the whole generates more information than its parts
Source
Anil Seth (Being You [2021], I.3)
Book Ref
Seth,Anil: 'Being You: new science of consciousness' [Faber 2022], p.61
A Reaction
Seth seems to present this as an 'interesting' proposal. I find it unlikely that consciousness could be explain in terms of information, or that a machine constructed on this principle would thus become conscious. (Databases pass this test).