“…SOC offers an attractive theoretical framework for the brain, since it predicts the empirical evidences of optimal information processing (Shew et al, 2011;Shew and Plenz, 2013), dynamical range (Kinouchi and Copelli, 2006;Larremore et al, 2011), and maximization of metastability (Tognoli and Kelso, 2014). It was previously suggested that SOC could serve as a framework for Consciousness as well (Werner, 2009;Carhart-Harris et al, 2014;Tagliazucchi, 2017;Walter and Hinterberger, 2022). In fact, criticality was linked to IIT as a necessary condition for integration of information (Kim and Lee, 2019;Popiel et al, 2020), and it is compatible with predictions from the GNW hypothesis (Tagliazucchi, 2017), among other frameworks.…”