Scientific American article on IIT

This article is quite old (2015) but it is interesting because it questions Integrated Information Theory. The author is John Horgan of end of science fame.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cro...ciousness/

I didn't even know Scientific American had blogs!

Anyway, it is definitely worth reading, even without understanding IIT - which seems remarkably dense.

Also it would seem that someone has devised a simple 2D grid of XOR gates that could have arbitrarily high phi - and is being touted as a counter example to the whole theory.

David

Dense language, for sure.  Here is Tononi & Koch trying to describe the process of mind, imagined from the perspective of physics.

According to IIT, the quantity and quality of an experience are an intrinsic, fundamental property of a complex of mechanisms in a state—the property of informing or shaping the space of possibilities (past and future states) in a particular way, just as it is considered to be intrinsic to a mass to bend space–time around it.

I would love to talk about just this in depth.  It is on the right tracks, in many ways, to my perspective.

Does it communicate anything with its reaching out to Einstein's ideas?