pyphi.matching

The matching formalism: perception and matching.

Implements the extension of IIT that relates a complex’s intrinsic cause-effect structure to the extrinsic stimuli that trigger it. A stimulus acts as a trigger for the complex’s state; the perception is the portion of the Φ-structure that stimulus triggers, and matching measures how much more perceptual differentiation a complex’s environment evokes than random noise.

Equation numbers throughout this package refer to:

Mayner WGP, Juel BE, Tononi G (2024). Intrinsic meaning, perception, and matching. arXiv:2412.21111.

Submodules

differentiation	Differentiation across the structures triggered by a set of stimuli.
environment	Environment generators for matching.
matching	Matching: the expected differentiation gap between world and noise.
perception	Perception: the portion of a cause-effect structure triggered by a stimulus.
system	PerceptualSystem: a system embedded in an environment via a sensory interface.
triggered_tpm	The triggered TPM: the system's fixed-lag response to each stimulus.
triggering	Triggering coefficients: how much a stimulus caused a mechanism's state.