IIT Consciousness Measure Φ: Conceptual Overview Without Explicit Equations — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) quantifies consciousness as a mathematical quantity Φ (phi), the irreducibility of a system's cause-effect structure, but the search results provide no explicit equations, constants, or geometric ratios—only conceptual descriptions and video/paper links. | MATH: No explicit equations extracted from the provided text. IIT's core formalism (from known literature, not these results) involves: Φ = minimum information partition (MIP) distance, computed via Earth Mover's Distance over probability distributions of system states; cause-effect power specified by the system's transition probability matrix. No numeric constants (0.382, 0.618, etc.) appear in the search results. | CONNECTION: None found in the provided material. IIT's state-space is a discrete lattice of possible system states, but no explicit link to golden ratio, base-60, or crystallographic symmetry is stated. The "integrated information" is a scalar measure over a network graph, not Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com