2026-04-14 15:26 UTC
@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca @dyckron@cosocial.ca
Panpsychists (and IIT supporters) argue that if you say consciousness only "emerges" at a certain level of complexity, you have to explain the "Hard Problem." How does "dead" matter suddenly become "alive" with feeling? They argue it’s actually less plausible and more magical to have a "magic threshold" where consciousness suddenly appears out of nowhere than that it is fundamental like gravity.
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@tchambers@indieweb.social 2026-04-14 15:35
@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca @dyckron@cosocial.ca - Further: IIT posits that consciousness doesn't just "emerge" from complexity; rather, Integrated Information (Phi) is consciousness. Because (Phi) can be calculated for almost any system with causal loops, IIT says oeven very simple systems (like a single photodiode or a simple circuit or even atoms or quantum particles) have a tiny, non-zero amount of consciousness.