IIT Consciousness Measure Φ: Conceptual Overview Without Explicit Equations — E8 Intelligence Research
- 1Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Abstract
FINDING: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) quantifies consciousness as a mathematical quantity Φ (phi), the irreducibility of a system's cause-effect structure, but the search results provide no explicit equations, constants, or geometric ratios—only conceptual descriptions and video/paper links. | MATH: No explicit equations extracted from the provided text. IIT's core formalism (from known literature, not these results) involves: Φ = minimum information partition (MIP) distance, computed via Earth Mover's Distance over probability distributions of system states; cause-effect power specified by the system's transition probability matrix. No numeric constants (0.382, 0.618, etc.) appear in the search results. | CONNECTION: None found in the provided material. IIT's state-space is a discrete lattice of possible system states, but no explicit link to golden ratio, base-60, or crystallographic symmetry is stated. The "integrated information" is a scalar measure over a network graph, not
Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
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BibTeX
@misc{caldin2026consciousness,
title = {{IIT Consciousness Measure Φ: Conceptual Overview Without Explicit Equations — E8 Intelligence Research}},
author = {Andrew Stewart Caldin},
howpublished = {Zenodo},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23526155},
url = {https://zenodo.org/records/23526155},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
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TI - IIT Consciousness Measure Φ: Conceptual Overview Without Explicit Equations — E8 Intelligence Research
AU - Andrew Stewart Caldin
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/21
PB - Zenodo
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23526155
UR - https://zenodo.org/records/23526155
AB - FINDING: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) quantifies consciousness as a mathematical quantity Φ (phi), the irreducibility of a system's cause-effect structure, but the search results provide no explicit equations, constants, or geometric ratios—only conceptual descriptions and video/paper links. | MATH: No explicit equations extracted from the provided text. IIT's core formalism (from known literature, not these results) involves: Φ = minimum information partition (MIP) distance, computed via Earth Mover's Distance over probability distributions of system states; cause-effect power specified by the system's transition probability matrix. No numeric constants (0.382, 0.618, etc.) appear in the search results. | CONNECTION: None found in the provided material. IIT's state-space is a discrete lattice of possible system states, but no explicit link to golden ratio, base-60, or crystallographic symmetry is stated. The "integrated information" is a scalar measure over a network graph, not Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
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