On the Everything list there was a text from the NY Times about the works of Giulio Tononi: Sizing Up Consciousness by Its Bits by CARL ZIMMER.
http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/28f25e59dba65ecc
From the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/science/21consciousness.html
there was a link to the paper of Giulio Tononi
Consciousness as Integrated Information: a Provisional Manifesto
http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/reprint/215/3/216
where one can find a better description of the ideas direct from the author. The website of the author
http://tononi.psychiatry.wisc.edu/People/GiulioTononi.html
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