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The Brouhaha Over Consciousness and “Pseudoscience” — John Horgan (The Science Writer) (johnhorgan.org)
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[–] ConsciousCode@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IIT confuses me. Every time I try to understand it, it sounds like incoherent pseudoscience using technical-sounding language that doesn't actually describe anything actionable. Yet it's also very popular and has some implementations approximating its metric? Maybe I'm just dumb... Though I'm pretty sure random networks of XOR gates aren't conscious fwiw.