Integrated Information in Discrete Dynamical Systems: Motivation and Theoretical Framework (original) (raw)
Figure 8
Integrated information and extrinsic inputs.
The gray box represents a main complex. Red arrows are input from the environment. Black arrows depict strong feedforward connections; gray arrows are weaker modulatory connections. The black zig-zag represents the bulk of the main complex. The current state of row Ra is determined by extrinsic inputs, which are treated as extrinsic noise. However the current state of row Rb together with the feedforward architecture of the system together specify the prior state of Ra, so that the system is able to distinguish extrinsic inputs once they have caused an interaction between elements within the main complex. Similarly row Rc specifies higher-order invariants in the prior state of row Rb.