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The '''Consciousness at Scale''' hypothesis holds that consciousness is not an all-or-nothing property of individual organisms but a graded phenomenon whose character and intensity depend on the scale, organization, and integration capacity of the system in question. A human brain is conscious; a neuron is not. But what about an ant colony, a [[China Brain|simulated brain the size of a nation]], or a global network of interacting human minds mediated by digital technology? The hypothesis rejects [[Biological Exceptionalism|biological exceptionalism]] — the intuition that carbon-based neurons have some magical property that silicon or social organization cannot replicate — and insists instead that consciousness is a property of the [[Causal emergence|causal architecture]] of a system, not its substrate.

The systems-theoretic version of this hypothesis, informed by [[Integrated Information Theory]] and [[Self-organized criticality|self-organized criticality]], predicts that consciousness emerges when a system achieves sufficient levels of information integration (Φ) and operates near a critical point where perturbations propagate globally but do not cause catastrophic collapse. At this critical point, the system supports the greatest number of distinct causal states — the greatest repertoire of what

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