Human Consciousness: Simply a state of matter? (Humans)

by BBella , Saturday, October 31, 2015, 17:38 (3309 days ago)

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/181284-human-consciousness-is-simply-a-state-of-matt... short, though, it outlines Tononi's ITT — that consciousness results from a system that can store and retrieve vast amounts of information efficiently — and then moves onto his own creation, perceptronium, which he describes as “the most general substance that feels subjectively self-aware.” This substance can not only store and retrieve data, but it's also indivisible and unified (this is where we start to wander into the “here be dragons” realm of souls and spirits and so forth)."-Comment: Although the article doesn't explain what he means by "unified" this is what I would like to know more about what Tononi meant by it. And of course Tononi's and the other neuroscientist and theoretical physicists do not go into what causes or creates consciousness.