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Giulio Tononi, born in Trento, Italy, is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist renowned not only for his theory of consciousness but also for his studies on sleep mechanisms. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has held faculty positions in Pisa, New York, and San Diego. He collaborated with Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman, with whom he developed a theory on how the brain can integrate a critical amount of information in order to make it conscious. This theory has been further refined by Tononi and, at present, is one of the most promising scientific theoretical frameworks for consciousness research.
…whenever the mechanisms of a complex unfold
and specify informational relationships,
the flower of experience blooms.
(Consciousness As Integrated Information: A Provisional Manifesto)
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Cavanna, A.E., Nani, A. (2014). Giulio Tononi. In: Consciousness. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44088-9_28
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