The integrated information theory of agency

Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Mar 23:45:e45. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21002004.

Abstract

We propose that measures of information integration can be more straightforwardly interpreted as measures of agency rather than of consciousness. This may be useful to the goals of consciousness research, given how agency and consciousness are "duals" in many (although not all) respects.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Consciousness*
  • Humans
  • Information Theory*