>The more the current state of a system specifies its cause, the input, and its effect, the output, the more causal power the system has. Integrated information

>The more the current state of a system specifies its cause, the input, and its effect, the output, the more causal power the system has. Integrated information is a number that can be computed. The bigger the number for a system, the larger its integrated information, and the more conscious the system is. Isn't that what Douglas Hofstadter has been telling us in "I am a strange loop" ?