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The psychedelic state in light of integrated information theory

• knecht 11y ago
  For anyone interested in Integrated Information Theory (IIT), Scholarpedia's current summary is much, much better thank Wikipedia's. http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Integrated_information_theory http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Integrated_information_t... IIT is one of the most horribly abused and misunderstood theories out there, right alongside poor old Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. I'd be wary of anything that you read about IIT and what it implies, unless that information is coming directly from the theory's creators.
  • moyix 11y ago
    It's also worth reading Scott Aaronson's (fairly meaty, it seems to me) objection to IIT: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799
    • pygy_ 11y ago
      Aaronson's criticism boils down to: "I understand the math and what it predicts doesn't match my uneducated, intuitive idea of what should and shouldn't be conscious. also ur dumb haha[0]." A bad case of the Dunning Kruger effect, quite surprising for someone who deals regularly with the totally unintuitive aspects of quantum physics. [0] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1823 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1823, where he drops his troll mask.