New Preprint Unifies Integration and Access Accounts of Consciousness
anilkseth · x · 2026-09-08
Neuroscientist anilkseth highlights a new preprint from canalesjohnson and colleagues: "From synergy to redundancy: An information-relation account of consciousness."
The paper tackles what makes a neural representation conscious: is it that information becomes integrated across the brain, or that it becomes widely available to many systems? The authors propose these two classic explanations may be two parts of the same story, offering a unified information-relation framework.
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