Information Closure Theory of Consciousness

Understand

Information processing in neural systems can be described and analysed at multiple spatiotemporal scales.

• Generally, information at lower levels is more fine-grained and can be coarse-grained in higher levels.
• However, information processed only at specific levels seems to be available for conscious awareness.
• We do not have direct experience of information available at the level of individual neurons, which is noisy and highly stochastic.