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.
Why? Since the degree of consciousness is not directly observable, Tononi can simply claim that whenever Phi is high, consciousness is high too. Which he does.
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