Liad Mudrik
School of Psychological Sciences / Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
Integrated information Consciousness is intrinsic causal power, measured as integrated information
Liad Mudrik is Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. She is a prominent cognitive neuroscientist specializing in the functional role of consciousness, semantic integration, and the neural mechanisms of voluntary action.
Mudrik is a principal investigator and co-leader of the Cogitate Consortium, developing standardized adversarial collaboration frameworks to resolve conflicting theoretical predictions in neuroscience. Her research investigates the precise computational boundary dividing unconscious processing from conscious awareness, testing whether complex contextual integration, semantic incongruity detection, and voluntary decision-making strictly require conscious experience.
Mudrik’s rigorous experimental work establishes definitive constraints on what unconscious artificial networks can accomplish, providing critical criteria for identifying when a computational system requires conscious integration rather than automated feedforward computation.
Known for. Adversarial collaboration methodology, high-level unconscious processing limits, neural basis of free will and conscious volition, Cogitate Consortium co-lead
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Liad Mudrik is listed with the other integrated information theorists, who hold that consciousness is intrinsic causal power, measured as integrated information. The theory family behind that position is set out in the index of consciousness theories. Every researcher covered on this site is indexed in the directory of consciousness researchers.