However, a proposal by the neuroscientist Giulio Tononi (2008) goes further in identifying consciousness with integrated information and asserting that information integration of the relevant sort is both necessary and sufficient for consciousness regardless of the substrate in which is realized which need not be neural or biological.
Just this week, Zambia's minister of information asserted that state-run media should not criticise the government.
The "Suda," a tenth-century Byzantine encyclopedia of ancient culture, which is the basis of much of our information, asserts that Sappho "flourished" between 612 and 608 B.C.; from this, scholars have concluded that she was born around 640.
The president of the Boston Fed, Eric S. Rosengren, has published research asserting that information collected by bank supervisors can improve the forecasts of inflation and unemployment that Fed policy makers consider when setting interest rates.
For example, the "Information, Motivation and Behavior (IMB) model" asserts that information is a prerequisite for changing behavior, but in itself is usually insufficient to achieve this change if the patient is not motivated to perform the behavior [ 26, 27].
For a little while, Widrich asserts, that information was cloaked.
We must assert that information of this sort concerning the threat of German armed invasion of Soviet territory was coming in also from our own military and diplomatic sources.
We do not have any evidence, however, that physicians' documentation skills should differ based on the neighbourhood income of their patients, and would assert that information bias relating to income is unlikely.
Google has been modest about its dominance in the modern information society, asserting that competing search engines, like Yahoo or Microsoft's Bing, are just "one click away" if people wish to use them.
For example, Arquilla and Ronfeldt (1997) assert that: … the information revolution favors and strengthens network forms of organisation, while making life difficult for hierarchical forms.
