When last we left University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Giulio Tononi, he was breeding a strain of mutant fruit flies for the Pentagon. These insects could get by on just a third the normal amount of ...

Giulio Tononi’s "integrated information theory" might solve neuroscience’s biggest puzzle Can a lobster feel pain in the same way as you or I? We know that they have the same sensors – called ...

But University of Wisconsin-Madison research psychiatrist Giulio Tononi, who was recently selected to take part in the creation of a "cognitive computer," says the goal of building a computer as quick ...

What has more consciousness: a puppy or a baby? An iPhone 5 or an octopus? For a long time, the question seemed impossible to address. But recently, Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University ...

Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi Allen Lane, £20, 274pp Buy it at BOL What is water? We would expect a scientist to be able to give two sorts of ...

One day in 2007, Dr. Giulio Tononi lay on a hospital stretcher as an anesthesiologist prepared him for surgery. For Dr. Tononi, it was a moment of intellectual exhilaration. He is a distinguished ...

Suppose you want to build a computer that operates like the brain of a mammal. How hard could it be? After all, there are supercomputers that can decode the human genome, play chess and calculate ...