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.
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I think Tononi is sincerely trying to find a mathematical proxy for panpsychism. He tries to escape functionalism, and must be looking for a principle on a level above computation. Spatial distributedness of computation might seem like a natural candidate to him?
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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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Most ways of increasing Kolmogorov complexity of a computer are not going to result in phenomenal experience or an increase thereof.
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