Kallum Robinson
Kallum Robinson works within Giulio Tononi’s Center for Sleep and Consciousness group on the mathematical foundations of Integrated Information Theory. His lead-authored 2026 paper with Tononi, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, and Matteo Grasso, “The Rosetta Stone and Levels of Principled Inference to the Experience of Another Mind,” takes on the philosophical problem of other minds using category theory rather than argument alone.
The paper treats two rival structural theories, IIT and the Qualia Structure Paradigm, as candidate “Rosetta Stones” that translate subjective structure into objective mathematical description, then asks precisely what kind of correspondence, isomorphism, strong or weak adjunction, or a hard inferential limit, either theory can establish between two systems’ experiences. Robinson’s contribution formalizes this as a hierarchy rather than a single yes-or-no test, which lets the same framework be applied consistently across humans, animals, and artificial systems without requiring a prior commitment to whether any of them are conscious.
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Known for. Formal comparison of structural theories of consciousness using category theory
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