I really don't get the appeal of IIT. Smells like curve fitting, which would be fine except they don't have anything solid to fit against. I agree with essentia

I really don't get the appeal of IIT. Smells like curve fitting, which would be fine except they don't have anything solid to fit against. I agree with essentially everything Scott Aaronson has said about it [1][2]: > When we consider whether to accept IIT’s equation of integrated information with consciousness, we don’t start with any agreed-upon, independent notion of consciousness against which the new notion can be compared. The main things we start with, in my view, are certain paradigm-cases that gesture toward what we mean > [...] But how does Giulio know that the cerebellum isn’t conscious? [...] he just told us that a 2D square grid [a simple circuit that scores high phi] is conscious! 1: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799 2: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1823 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1823