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You could ask the same kind of question about General Relativity. Sure mass/energy causes the curvature of spacetime but tell me how it does or your theory is w
by rvcdbn 3y ago
You could ask the same kind of question about General Relativity. Sure mass/energy causes the curvature of spacetime but tell me how it does or your theory is worthless. Even without the “how” GR still makes testable predictions that are born out by experiment. And this is the shape of all our physical theories. I think this is the kind of theory IIT is trying to be.
- mrtranscendence 3y agoWell, there's a reason it's called "the hard problem of consciousness" and not "just some incidental observation about models of consciousness". When evaluating general relativity it's not important to ask how mass/energy causes the curvature of spacetime; that's not the point of general relativity. But a theory of consciousness that doesn't explain the most intriguing, important component of consciousness doesn't explain what's important to me.