Feeling Grateful

To celebrate I will give away 3 copies of Tononi’s PHI book to the best comments on Consciousness! It’s my favorite book and I hope to share that with someone.

Tononi’s book is a beautiful exposition on The Nature of Consciousness, and includes his Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness (IIT). The IIT respects pre-theoretical intuitions about consciousness, such as its subjective informativeness and unity (identity).

It also aspires to mathematical maturity, through a quantitative and qualitative measure of consciousness Tononi calls “Φ” (“phi”). The circle in ‘Φ’ is represents the diversity of experience, while the line represents the unity in that diversity (reminiscent of the ‘yinyang’ symbol).

To get a chance to get one of the three books just give a comment on what consciousness means to you, and I will select three winners in a week who get the book sent home!