Complexity predicts different conscious states
Entropy is able to predict and describe:
- Psychopathology Pezard2001
- Intelligence Saxe2018
- ’Surprise’ within a Free energy principle framework Schartner2017
- Intensity of psychedelic drug effects Schartner2017 Carhart-Harris2018 Viol2017
- Longer-term psychological changes resulting from psychedelics, like increases in Big Five trait openness Lebedev2016
Lempel-Ziv (src: Mediano2023)
- Depth of anesthesia (Zhang2001)
- Levels of consciousness (Schartner2015)
- Disorders of consciousness (Casali2013)
- Sleep (Abasolo2015, Schartner2017a)
- Psychedelic state (Schartner2017, Timmermann2019, Mediano2020)
- Schizophrenia (Ibanez-Molina2018, Rajpal2022)
- Depression (Bachmann2015, Akar2015)
- Fluctuations of normal wakefulness relative to drowsiness (Mediano2021)
- Mind-wandering (Ibanez-Molina2014)
- Artistic improvisation (Dolan2018)
Relevant Notes
Loss of or diminished consciousness is associated with decreased complexity