Summer School 2024/2025講師の Giulio TononiさんとSummer School 2024参加者のMatteo GrassoさんおよびRenzo Comolattiさんの共著論文がiScienceへ採択されました。こちらから全文をお読みいただけます。ぜひ、ご一読ください。

論文情報

著者名：Renzo Comolatti, Matteo Grasso, Giulio Tononi

タイトル：Why does time feel the way it does? Toward a principled account of temporal experience

掲載誌： iScience, Volume 28, Issue 10, 2025

DOI：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113434

Abstract: Summary

 Time flows—or at least the time of our experience does. Can we provide an objective account of why the conscious present encompasses a succession of moments that slip from now to then—an account of why time feels flowing? Integrated Information Theory (IIT) aims to account for both the presence and quality of consciousness in objective, physical terms. Given a substrate’s architecture and current state, IIT’s formalism yields a cause-effect structure that fully accounts for experience. Here, we show that unfolding the cause-effect structure of directed grids can explain why time feels flowing. We argue that the conscious present feels flowing because it is composed of phenomenal distinctions (moments) that are directed and related via inclusion, connection, and fusion. Time, on this view, is not a process in clock time but a structure specified by the system’s current state. We conclude by outlining implications for the psychophysics, philosophy, and neuroscience of time.