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by tsimionescu 1402 days ago
IIT is exactly what I was thinking of as a bad definition of consciousness. Any theory that assigns a non 0 amount of "consciousness" to a rock is defining a completely different concept than what people mean when they say consciousness.

Also, IIT has no basis at all. They've just found some measure that satisfies the property "human brains have more of it than insect brains, and insect brains have more of it than rocks do". Nothing else makes the II measurement in IIT related to consciousness, as far as I've ever found.