This is such nonsense. Watching academics flop about trying to craft theories of consciousness or theories of mind is like watching people climbing trees to rea

This is such nonsense. Watching academics flop about trying to craft theories of consciousness or theories of mind is like watching people climbing trees to reach the moon. But we're progressing 20% faster than last year! Or more realistically, maybe the ancients trying to build machines that fly to the moon. We should know by now that we know so little that all these nice little hypotheses are little better than wild-ass-guesses and grantsmanship. What is Photoshop-ness? How does it differ from Fortnite-ness? Or Excel-ness? Panpsychist: It's all connected maaaaan. Me: You've told me nothing remotely interesting. Integrated Information Theorist: The whole is more than the sum of its parts, but we can't actually calculate it. Me: So there's an information processor? Great. Necessary but not sufficient. You've defined away everything interesting. Saying that microcode (or a Turing machine) can implement Photoshop or Fortnite tells me nothing about Photoshop-ness or Fortnite-ness. ... Ugh. So much nonsense, wrapped in so many formulae and intelligent-sounding arguments. It's not even wrong.