Analysis of Shannon's entropy to contrast between the Embodied and Neurocentrist hypothesis of conscious experience.
Bio Systems December 1, 2024 Sergio J Martínez García, Pablo Padilla Longoria 7 citations
A proposed index based on Shannon's entropy can discriminate between the Neurocentrist hypothesis (consciousness is in the brain) and the Embodied hypothesis (consciousness involves the whole organism). Current theories like information integration theory and global workspace theory focus only on the brain, failing to account for embodied processing. The index measures whether information processing is primarily internal or external, and simulations with networks of varying internal and outer layers validated the index as unbiased. This offers a way to test which hypothesis better explains consciousness without relying on physical network structure.