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Integrated Information Theory (IIT)—put forth by neuroscientists Giulio Tononi and Christof Koch—is a new framework that describes a way to experimentally measure the extent to which a system is conscious. As such, it has the potential to answer questions that once seemed impossible, like “which is more conscious, a bat or a beetle?” Furthermore, the theory posits that any system that processes and integrates information, be it organic or inorganic, experiences the world subjectively to some degree.

Plants, smartphones, the Internet—even protons—are all examples of such systems. The decline and demise of the mystical One of science’s last greatest mysteries Integrated Information Theory to the Rescue That’s right.

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