Right, as far as I understand it that's also close to how Tononi's and Koch's Integrated Information Theory[1] try to explain conscious phenomena. In their parl

Right, as far as I understand it that's also close to how Tononi's and Koch's Integrated Information Theory[1] try to explain conscious phenomena. In their parlance the computer would have a low value of phi. I was surprised that this theory is not even mentioned in the article, even though Aaronson has quite some opinion on it.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory [2] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799