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Consciousness is integrated information.
Conflating consciousness and reality.
only information bound to the attention schema is recognized or describable as being within consciousness.
information
Conflating information and data.
consciousness is not integrated information per se. Rather, we are conscious of information that is integrated with an attention schema.
the claim of consciousness is unverifiable.
integrated information
Integrated in what way?
Consciousness is both an observer of the world in us and around us, and also a controller.
How can we understand the creature’s irrational behavior?
Does the behavior, after all, have a hidden use?
And spirituality and religion are nonignorable large components of human behavior. How can we, as scientists, turn our backs on these phenomena?
somehow the blind trust ends up benefitting the leaders themselves, usually financially.
I accept the usefulness—the cultural usefulness, the humanistic usefulness, the personal usefulness—of considering spiritual questions.
when people perform an action, the plan to move is generated first and the conscious intention to act is generated shortly thereafter.
Consciousness takes in information. It is an observer. Second, consciousness can also make choices and control our behavior.
Models are simplifications
of the things they represent.
But do they work?
If you can better predict that person’s behavior, then you can choose your actions more effectively, survive more effectively,
Awareness has an evolutionary advantage. It has a use.
Evolution works opportunistically.
detecting agency, such as detecting a predator
Animals have consciousness type B,
Everyone but you has Type B.
