> There's a very obvious absence of any real philosophical analysis or depth of understanding of the subject matter Integrated Information Theory seems like a

> There's a very obvious absence of any real philosophical analysis or depth of understanding of the subject matter Integrated Information Theory seems like a lot of thought has gone into it, and it would ascribe a good deal of consciousness to some of these systems. > A formal system by definition lacks features that are characteristic of intelligence (semantics and the ability to abstract from particulars) And quantum mechanics would have you believe Newtonian mechanics is nonsense, but there are such things as emergent properties, and rules changes as scales allow more complex compositions of simple rules. > If you are prepared to worry about your computer becoming conscious. That feels a bit disingenuous. You're dressing down some of the worlds largest supercomputers as "my computer". I'm not worried about my M1 Mac suffering. I'm worried about an emergent mind composed of thousands and thousands of computers working together to simulate intelligence suffering.