The problem with theories like mirror neurons or IIT is not that they are wrong, but that they are superstitious. Their proposed elements have no way in which they could actually produce the result they pretend to explain.
The problem is that Tononi and Koch have assigned properties to consciousness that are incompatible with functionalism, i.e. they want to explain a phenomenon that is outside the scope of computational theories. Give them some credit for trying the impossible!
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IIT is as much among top theories of consciousness as Manicheism is among top theories of cosmology. Certainly among the top ten.
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