Scientist II
Biography
I am a Scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I do research in philosophy and computational neuroscience. In my research I contribute to the development of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and its application to the study of consciousness.
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Metaphysics, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial neural networks, Consciousness, Causation, Phenomenal experience, Panpsychism, Concepts, Free Will, Artificial consciousness.
Selected Publications
| 2026 |
• Grasso, M., Hendren, J., & Tononi, G. (2026). Consciousness as intrinsic structure: Towards a chemistry of experience. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.11398 • Robinson, K., Tononi, G., Tsuchiya, N., & Grasso, M. (2026). The Rosetta Stone and levels of principled inference to the experience of another mind. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.12030 • Hendren, J., Grasso, M., Ellia, F., & Tononi, G. (2026). Can extrinsic methods reveal intrinsic structure? Complementing IIT with QStr. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.24928 |
| 2025 |
• Tononi, G., Albantakis, L., Barbosa, L., Boly, M., Cirelli, C., Comolatti, R., Ellia, F., Findlay, G., Girardi Casali, A., Grasso, M., Haun, A. M., Hendren, J., Hoel, E., Koch, C., Maier, A., Marshall, W., Massimini, M., Mayner, W. G. P., Oizumi, M., Szczotka, J., Tsuchiya, N., & Zaeemzadeh, A. (2025). Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? A clash of two paradigms. Nature Neuroscience, 28(4), 694–702. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01880-y • Comolatti, R., Grasso, M., & Tononi, G. (2025). Why does time feel the way it does? Toward a principled account of temporal experience. iScience, 28(10), Article 113434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113434 |
| 2023 |
• Marshall, W., Grasso, M., Mayner, W. G. P., Zaeemzadeh, A., Barbosa, L. S., Chastain, E., Findlay, G., Sasai, S., Albantakis, L., & Tononi, G. (2023). System integrated information. Entropy, 25(2), Article 334. https://doi.org/10.3390/e25020334 • Albantakis, L., Barbosa, L., Findlay, G., Grasso, M., Haun, A. M., Marshall, W., Mayner, W. G. P., Zaeemzadeh, A., Boly, M., Juel, B. E., Sasai, S., Fujii, K., David, I., Hendren, J., Lang, J. P., & Tononi, G. (2023). Integrated information theory (IIT) 4.0: Formulating the properties of phenomenal existence in physical terms. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(10), Article e1011465. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011465 • Owen, M., Huang, Z., Duclos, C., Lavazza, A., Grasso, M., & Hudetz, A. G. (2023). Theoretical neurobiology of consciousness applied to human cerebral organoids. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180123000543 |
| 2022 |
• Tononi, G., Boly, M., Grasso, M., Hendren, J., Juel, B. E., Mayner, W. G. P., Marshall, W., & Koch, C. (2022). IIT, half masked and half disfigured. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, Article e60. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21001990 • Tononi, G., Albantakis, L., Boly, M., Cirelli, C., Grasso, M., & Koch, C. (2022). Only what exists can cause: An intrinsic view of free will. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.02069 |
| 2021 |
• Grasso, M., Albantakis, L., Lang, J. P., & Tononi, G. (2021). Causal reductionism and causal structures. Nature Neuroscience, 24(10), 1348–1355. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00911-8 • Grasso, M., Haun, A. M., & Tononi, G. (2021). Of maps and grids. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), Article niab022. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab022 • Ellia, F., Hendren, J., Grasso, M., Kozma, C., Mindt, G., Lang, J. P., Haun, A. M., Albantakis, L., Boly, M., & Tononi, G. (2021). Consciousness and the fallacy of misplaced objectivity. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), Article niab032. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab032 |
| 2020 |
• Grasso, M., & Marmodoro, A. (2020). Introduction: Mental powers. Topoi, 39, 1017–1020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-019-09680-3 • Marmodoro, A., & Grasso, M. (2020). The power of color. American Philosophical Quarterly, 57(1), 65–78. https://doi.org/10.2307/48570646 |
| 2019 |
• Grasso, M. (2019). IIT vs. Russellian monism: A metaphysical showdown on the content of experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 26(1–2), 48–75. https://philpapers.org/rec/GRAIVR |