2026-04-14 13:05 UTC
@tchambers@indieweb.social @dyckron@cosocial.ca Thanks for the reference! I’ll need to go through it to try to understand better what is proposed (although I admit I’m pre-disposed to be pretty sceptical).
(In looking at the authors, I’m delighted to find out that Oxford has a “Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing”.)
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@tchambers@indieweb.social 2026-04-14 13:38
@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca @dyckron@cosocial.ca Cool! IIT takes the 'everything is conscious' intuition of panpsychism and adds a mathematical filter: all matter has the potential for experience, but only systems that are sufficiently integrated actually achieve unified awareness. Importantly, this moves the needle on the discussion from philosophy to science. While panpsychism alone by definition is unfalsifiable, IIT makes testable predictions about brain activity and AI that could actually prove the theory wrong.