Learning is the search for better function approximations, and so is evolution. Gradient descent works only when you can identify a gradient. Otherwise you are stuck with evolutionary methods.
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I think I can understand and respect the motivation behind IIT but not the theory itself. Building an anti functionalist information processing theory is an oxymoron and doomed. But the good news is that we *can* reduce consciousness, I think.
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