Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread Dylan Distasio
John Clark wrote: > >> Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience" >> <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02971-1?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=84936ca310-briefing-dy-20230921&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-84936ca310-44221073

Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread Brent Meeker
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Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 3:00 PM Jason Resch wrote: > *By its own definitions IIT is not falsifiable, for it proclaims that a > computer program that gave identical behavior in all situations to another > conscious system, would not be conscious. But since it has identical > behavior there is no o

Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:43 PM Dylan Distasio wrote: *> Having read that letter, I don't find it very becoming of the scientists > writing it who should know better. Regardless of what you think about > IIT and its merits or lack thereof, it results in some predictions that can > be tested* >

Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread Jason Resch
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Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread Dylan Distasio
ll on the signees. On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:08 PM John Clark wrote: > Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience" > <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02971-1?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=84936ca310-briefing-dy-20230921&utm_medium=email&utm_t

Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread John Clark
Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience" <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02971-1?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=84936ca310-briefing-dy-20230921&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-84936ca310-44221073> John K ClarkSee what's on