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2026-04-14 13:38 UTC

@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.

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  • @michaelgemar@cosocial.ca 2026-04-14 15:10

    @tchambers@indieweb.social @dyckron@cosocial.ca I’m still not understanding why one couldn’t simply say “systems that are sufficiently integrated *produce* consciousness” (this would become a sort of functionalist view). Putting the magic into all matter everywhere seems less plausible than only certain systems producing magic.

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