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A toolbox for integrated information theory.
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IIT subject boundaries: Voronoi or candles? #25

Closed void4 closed 5 years ago

void4 commented 5 years ago

When applying IIT to our universe, do the subject boundaries look more like Voronoi diagrams (the entire space is filled) image

or are there "non-subjective" spaces inbetween image?

wmayner commented 5 years ago

This is a complex question, but the short answer is that if one were to apply the IIT algorithm to the universe (specifically, the pyphi.compute.network.condensed() function), there would almost certainly be regions that are not part of any complex; that is, the result would look more like the second image.

We prefer to use the GitHub issues page for specific issues with PyPhi, so I'll close this, but please feel free to join our mailing list for further discussion.

void4 commented 5 years ago

Thank you!