Christof Koch's panpsychism appears to be incompatible with scientific epistemologyhttps://www.wired.com/2013/11/christof-koch-panpsychism-consciousness/ …
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Replying to @Plinz
Not sure that I'll call integrated information theory panpsychism. Latter is usually dualist belief. The former is a form of functionalism
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Replying to @amasad
If you read the interview, you can see that Koch (like Tononi) tries to frame IIT as a stand-in for panpsychism
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Replying to @Plinz
Ah interesting I come the idea of "scale of consciousness" from Hofstadter -- he never refers to IIT, maybe that's why
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Replying to @amasad
Hofstadter is a mathematical functionalist, I think. IIT is an attempt to build a non-functionalist theory.
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