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pab_guy t1_iurphio wrote

This tracks with how I think about it. The problem with IIT has always been that information is integrated at many scales, and we don't have any reason to believe that qualia is generated at all (or any) of them. Humans integrate information between themselves through conversation and collaboration. Is there experience happening as a result? Where? That doesn't make any sense to me...

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HamiltonBrae t1_iuvpfyo wrote

>Humans integrate information between themselves through conversation and collaboration. Is there experience happening as a result? Where? That doesn't make any sense to me...

imo it doesn't make any more or less sense than the same idea for neurons, ions, membrane potentials, neurotransmitters, synaptic clefts etc.

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pab_guy t1_iuvx3nr wrote

Yeah that too LOL panpsychism makes more sense to me. Though I will say that information does need to be integrated into the bound contexts of qualia, so I do think it's necessary, just not sufficient.

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iiioiia t1_iuwa5iu wrote

I think how it works is that the specific nature of qualia that emerges (is generated at higher levels) is a function of the existence and nature of information that is is integrated at many scales/levels.

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