An attempt at defining consciousness based on information theory
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It has elements akin Tononi's IIT theory's usage of complexity metrics, Karl friston's modelling of brains as Bayesian inference machines and Wittgenstein's private language argument
The methods of measuring complexity might be able to do better with a refinement,one possibility has been conjectured within the paper using a thought experiment
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