朱利奥·托诺尼的整合信息理论为解释意识提供了一个定量的、经验实证上可理解的假说。该假说认为意识是分化的系统组分间因果交互作用而产生的整合信息;意识是复合体的内在属性,有等级之分。这些观点推翻了哲学中的"僵尸"论证,并提出了一个意识与自我相分离的泛心论版本。
Integrated information theory of Giulio Tononi provided a quantitative, empirically accessible hypothesis to explain consciousness. It pre-sumed consciousness is integrated information which resulted from interaction among parts of system. Consciousness is a fundamental quantity and graded. These opinions defused philosophical zombie argument and defended a new version of panpsychism which inferred consciousness is not nec-essarily combined with self.