At the biennial “Science of Consciousness” conference held in Tucson, Ariz., in April, top neuroscientists as well as cranks gathered to present their ideas on how consciousness works.
Neuroscientist Naotsugu Tsuchiya supports integration information theory, which holds that the consciousness of a system is proportional to its interconnectivity.
Philosopher Richard Brown’s theory of consciousness goes by the acronym HOROR – Higher Order Representation of Representation – and proves to be quite unintelligible.
The concurrent sessions are each more baffling than the other.
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- He argues strenuously that President Trump will make us great again.
- The resort is a sprawl of pinkish brick guarded by saguaro cactus and back-dropped mountains.
- IIT was invented by Giulio Tononi and popularized by Christof Loch.
“IIT holds that the consciousness of a system is proportional to its phi, which is the system’s interconnectivity, or synergy, or information density, or something.”
Read the full article here: Dispatch from the Desert of Consciousness Research, Part 1 – Scientific American
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