Informational Structures and Informational Fields as a Prototype for the Description of Postulates of the Integrated Information Theory

Abstract

Informational Structures (IS) and Informational Fields (IF) have been recently introduced to deal with a continuous dynamical systems-based approach to Integrated Information Theory (IIT). IS and IF contain all the geometrical and topological constraints in the phase space. This allows one to characterize all the past and future dynamical scenarios for a system in any particular state. In this paper, we develop further steps in this direction, describing a proper continuous framework for an abstract formulation, which could serve as a prototype of the IIT postulates.

Keywords

• dynamical system
• integrated information theory
• global attractors
• Lotka–Volterra equations
• informational structure
• informational field