On 1/28/2020 3:31 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:
Maybe. But the failure I wrote of applies if consciousness occurs only
in brains (or even in just human brains) and IIT only applies to that.
Unless IIT is modified as Mørch proposes, but then IIT would not be
the same IIT that Aaronson is writing about 6 years ago.
It would still fail though, because Scott's counter example includes
things made of matter:
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//In my view, IIT fails to solve the Pretty-Hard Problem because it
unavoidably predicts vast amounts of consciousness in physical systems
that no sane person would regard as particularly “conscious” at all:
indeed, systems that do nothing but apply a low-density parity-check
code, or other simple transformations of their input data. Moreover,
IIT predicts not merely that these systems are “slightly” conscious
(which would be fine), but that they can be unboundedly more conscious
than humans are./
Brent
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