Tononi — IIT 4.0 Phenomenology Axioms (External)

What it contributes

A clean phenomenological axiom set that can live alongside (not inside) physics axioms.

External axiom candidates (phenomenology)

  • Existence
  • Intrinsicality
  • Information (specificity)
  • Integration (unity)
  • Exclusion (definiteness)
  • Composition (structure)

Bridge to your vault

  • You already use Φ heavily; this note just quarantines the external IIT axioms/postulates so we can decide what to adopt.

Objections to capture (if adopted)

  • Unfolding argument / functional equivalence
  • Falsifiability claims vs PCI as proxy