This raises a question: What are these principles that information processing needs to obey to be conscious? I don’t pretend to know what conditions are sufficient to guarantee consciousness, but here are four necessary conditions that I’d bet on and have explored in my research: Principle Definition Information principle A conscious system has substantial information-storage capacity. Dynamics principle A conscious system has substantial information-processing capacity. Independence principle A conscious system has substantial independence from the rest of the world. Integration principle A
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