What Integrated Information Theory Suggests About Consciousness — and Why It Still Can’t Explain Experience - Dualistic Unity Integrated Information Theory (IIT) offers one of science’s most ambitious explanations of consciousness. This article explores what IIT reveals about awareness—and why structural, information-based models still can’t account for lived experience itself.

Integrated Information Theory quantifies structure, not lived experience. What remains untouched when consciousness is reduced to measurement?

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I'm looking around for material that would provide someone without a background in neuroscience some understanding of the debate about Integrated Information Theory and the study of consciousness.

I've read Tononi and Koch's 2015 "Consciousness: here, there, and everywhere?" […]

Notable Links and Miscellanea—March 23, 2025 #1. Many readers will recall the 2023 controversial letter calling Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness (ITT) “pseudoscience.”

Notable Links and Miscellanea—March 23, 2025 @awaisaftab #Consciousness #IntegratedInformationTheory #Psychiatry #Pseudoscience #MentalHealth

What is God ? “from the conflict of the most extravagant opinions upon unanswerable questions and texts which no one understood, was born theology, — which may be defined as the science of the infinitely absurd.…

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#God #Religion #TestableHypothesis #Theology #Lichens #FieldTheoryOfConsciousness #IntegratedInformationTheory #IIT #ItsProblemIsItCantDoIt #MyProblemIsICantDoIIT #RadioSignalingBacteria #OhYes #TheyDo #WhatIsGodInYou
#WhatIsGodBetweenUs

Understanding Consciousness Goes Beyond Exploring Brain Chemistry We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain

On #consciousness and #evolution:

“Understanding Consciousness Goes Beyond Exploring Brain Chemistry” [2023], Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com/article/unde...).

#Mind #SelfAwareness #Brain #IntegratedInformationTheory #IIT

The Worth of Wild Ideas Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.

On #IntegratedInformationTheory or #IIT and #panpsychism (on which the #InOurTime #podcast had an episode recently – ugh):

“The Worth Of Wild Ideas” [2023], Nautilus (nautil.us/the-worth-of...).

#Science #Pseudoscience #Consciousness #Mind #Brain