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Consciousness as integrated information

applies it to consciousness. In a nutshell, the idea is that the level of consciousness you have is related to how many possible states your brain could be in and how tightly integrated those states are. Consciousness is, according to the IIT, the same thing as the brain integrating information and can be quantified in terms of the brain’s organizational structure.

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