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Consciousness as Integrated Information: a Provisional Manifesto

Giulio Tononi

The Biological Bulletin, 2008

The integrated information theory (IIT) starts from phenomenology and makes use of thought experiments to claim that consciousness is integrated information. Specifically: (i) the quantity of consciousness corresponds to the amount of integrated information generated by a complex of elements; (ii) the quality of experience is specified by the set of informational relationships generated within that complex. Integrated information (Φ) is defined as the amount of information generated by a complex of elements, above and beyond the information generated by its parts. Read full article.

2014/12/082014/12/08

Mini-Me: “Being Homeless is better than working for Amazon”

Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence

Huh?

‘Being homeless is better than working for Amazon'

Nichole Gracely has a master’s degree and was one of Amazon’s best order pickers. Now, after protesting the company, she’s homeless

I am homeless. My worst days now are better than my best days working at Amazon.

Read full article — PRICELESS.

2014/12/082014/12/07

Uri Bar-Joseph: Conscious Intelligence Failure

Ethics, Government

PDF (28 Pages): 2009 Intelligence Failure by Uri Bar-Joseph and Jack Levy

The literature generally traces major intelligence failures to an ambiguous threat environment compounded by the adversary’s strategic deception, to collective mindsets and individual cognitive biases, and to familiar organizational pathologies. This study aimed to shed more light on the neglected subject of the role of conscious action in the study of intelligence failure, with a primary emphasis on “intelligence to please,” organizational restructuring, and insubordination motivated by a we-know-best attitude.

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2014/12/07

Anthony Judge: Where is Global Brain’s Integrative Function?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

Corpus Callosum of the Global Brain

Where is the integrative function located within the worldwide web?

Introduction
Corpus callosum of the global brain?
Imagining an integrative function within the world wide web
References

2014/12/07

Berto Jongman: The Internet is Less Free

Cultural Intelligence, IO Impotency

The internet is less free than last year.

The internet is getting less free year by year with governments passing more laws to restrict online speech and increase monitoring of users.

That's according to New York-based Freedom House which on Friday published its fifth annual study of internet freedom around the globe.

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Which is the most free country? Iceland, apparently, with a satisfying 6 points, followed by Estonia (which this week announced it would offer e-citizenship) with 8 points. Canada comes next with 15, then Australia and Germany are tied with 17 points a piece. And as for the Home of Freedom™? The United States comes sixth with 19 points.

2014/12/07

John Pilger: Propaganda Has Buried Journalism

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Media

Propaganda Has Triumphed over Journalism, and the Consequences Are Enormous

We need a press that teaches the young to be agents of people, not power.

EXTRACT

The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an “invisible government”. It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.

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