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The theory starts with a description of consciousness. I don't think you could say that issue was glossed over. So after considering the theory, do yo...

What do you mean "blocks the hard problem?". It attempts to answer it. Isn't it? So we need a unique theory of consciousness for every incidence of it...

I'm sure you've noticed that once you start studying biology, you see the same themes over and over. One night I was studying human reproduction and I...

So true. I think we should change the climate. That'll teach it.

Then I misunderstood our topic. That is the question a scientific theory of consciousness would be looking to answer. If we imagine your consciousness...

That makes me mildly sad because of my relentless genocidal attitude about it. Have you ever heard of a Chinaberry tree? It has feathery leaves, purpl...

Me up at does out of the floor quietly Stare a poisoned mouse still who alive is asking What have i done that You wouldn’t have? -- EE Cummings Meanwh...

I meant there's no one to help with the source of the problem: in central america.

They're just sending accompanied minors back with their parents. That's why parents are paying to have their kids smuggled in. That leaves the kids vu...

It's not any sort of presupposition. It's anatomy. No, that is not implied by the existence of sensory innervation, unless you're asking if the brain ...

Well the nooz says the present issue has to do with a more humane approach used by Biden. He isn't shoving unaccompanied minors back into Mexico, so p...

The stuff you can't do without isn't sensory innervated. A fair amount of the stuff that is sensory innervated can be lost without any significant cha...

Neural plasticity, yep. Another challenge to making a theory of consciousness.

I was amazed to learn that everyone moves their eyes back and forth all the time, but you can't see your own eyes doing this in a mirror because it's ...

At the early stages, IIT isn't trying to explain the experience of understanding. It's trying to set out a set of correlates of consciousness. On the ...

You have to be the underdog somehow, or the world will hate you. Goats have struggled for years to get a little respect. Plus they're actually proud o...

You can still have gore and grand purposes in a star trek style. Neanderthals didn't have all the fun.

https://bellesartsferran.com/10080-big_default/ancient-greek-myths-series-satyr-24024-scale-models.jpg This might work.

Huh? Nodoby minds wearing pants until they don't have to.

Facial problems. Yes.

In public with no mask! Woot!

IIT says a conscious system has a certain amount of internal causation.

Child trafficking? For what?

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Bob is just going to be a lot older than Frank. They'll be able to consult with a physicist to understand why.

Well, I don't totally understand IIT at this point. That's why I started this thread, in hopes of figuring out how it comes together. So far I know th...

Have you ever noticed that goats have a bored look on their faces? Like, "Oh, this is boring."

I'm not sure what that means.

You're asking about the information axiom. Tononi is using "information" the way physicists do. Out of all the ways a thing can be, it's this way. It ...

The axioms are the description. Do you disagree with any of them? What would you add?

Around 300 years ago Newton described gravity. We're still trying to understand how it works. A theory of consciousness doesn't have to be served up c...

Evolutionary biology might be the answer. Why would we need to answer that definitively at this point?

The next axiom/postulate pair is about information. Recall, by saying that consciousness is characterized by information, we mean it's specific. If yo...

Why would integration have to be all or nothing? How about degrees of it and a threshold for consciousness?

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Good question. Did you see what I said earlier about axioms and postulates?

Sweet!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-rMo87P-nDc

It doesn't lead to it per IIT. Integrateted information is consciousness. But if you have a second, a thing I've been doing is thinking about the axio...

If this theory is taken seriously, it's because we're not in the clunk-headed behaviorist 20th Century anymore. We're still pretty physicalist, though...

Isn't this you? https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/392D/production/_116373641_gettyimages-1294932124.jpg

It helps with the PR to have that black flag of malevolence flowing behind.

Like a witch hat? Or more like the KKK?

The normal sized people were also destroyed. I think there was too much sodomy going on.

I'm vegetarian these days, so not unless it's a black bean scientist.

I told you months ago it was in Australia. You guys didn't believe me. Pfft.

I think Hebrew justice was covenant based.

They don't actually eat bats. The vector was supposedly some animal that was bitten by a bat. Maybe a scientist.

It's because there isn't enough war and pestilence. Those things make people feel alive. See Fight Club.

I think the Hebrews interpreted the flood myth as God's vengeance on an evil world. That's hardcore justice.