A Means to Measure Consciousness?

“Consciousness has long been the province of philosophers, and most doctors steer clear of their abstract speculations. After all, debating the finer points of what it is like to be a brain floating in a vat does not tell you how much anesthetic to give a patient.” But one researcher suggests that consciousness is just integrated information in the brain, and that we can measure it the way we measure data in, say, a cell phone call.