Jeremiah Hendren
Jeremiah Hendren works within Giulio Tononi’s Center for Sleep and Consciousness group on the structural side of Integrated Information Theory, the effort to describe not only whether a system is conscious but what the specific quality of its experience is and how that quality is composed from more basic phenomenal distinctions.
With Matteo Grasso and Tononi, Hendren co-authored the August 2026 preprint “Consciousness as Intrinsic Structure: Towards a Chemistry of Experience,” which proposes treating phenomenal experience the way chemistry treats matter, as combinations of a limited set of basic elements governed by systematic compositional rules, rather than as an unstructured collection of sensory atoms. The analogy is meant to make the internal structure IIT assigns to an experience empirically tractable in the same way a molecular formula is, specific, falsifiable, and comparable across systems.
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Known for. Structural modeling of phenomenal experience within Integrated Information Theory
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