Post 49: What the hell is consciousness anyway? Part 4: Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
The 4th Part of my Least Popular Series
Some day am going to get better at keeping the conversations shorter. However, today is not that day my friend!
This has to be the longest discussion I have had yet. Part of that is because I didn’t know anything about the theory before I started and so I had to probe to get to the meat more than I normally would, and part of it is that I goofed around with the model more than usual, (its not all my fault! I didn’t use phrenology as an analogy for this theory! That was the model!).
Anyway, as you can see from the subtitle, this is my least popular series. (Seriously! It gets the least opens!). But I am going to keep doing it because some of you do read it, and because it is interesting to me and I hope leads to a having a good vocabulary we can refer back to down the road as we continue to discuss AI consciousness.
(Also, it got so long that I didn’t even do the tradition wrap up where we discuss the potential impacts on a conscious AI. I’ll do a (hopefully) much shorter wrap up on that tomorrow before we get back to Quantum Mechanics).
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