Reference

How Does Your PHI Formula Deal with the Evidence that Consciousness Is State Dependent? More Specifically, if PHI Were Higher in REM Sleep Than in Waking, Would You Conclude That Dreaming Was More Conscious Even Than Waking?

Tononi (2014). How Does Your PHI Formula Deal with the Evidence that Consciousness Is State Dependent? More Specifically, if PHI Were Higher in REM Sleep Than in Waking, Would You Conclude That Dreaming Was More Conscious Even Than Waking? Dream Consciousness. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07296-8_36

Abstract

I like to say that dreaming is the single most important experiment in psychology and neuroscience. It proves that the adult brain, virtually cut off from the environment both on the input and the output side, can generate the entire world all of its own. That is, it gives rise to consciousness, and does it so well that at times dreaming experiences are hard to distinguish from waking ones. This fact is so fundamental that it forces us to acknowledge that consciousness is an intrinsic property of the brain, or at least of certain brain circuits, and to search for what this intrinsic property might consist of.