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Paul Thagard on cognition, consciousness, misinformation, balance

Thing in itself

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Is There a Neural Theory of Consciousness?

IIT sees consciousness as a level of some level of complexity when you write information. Information integration and to know these theory is in fact computationally intractable, because it requires computing all the subsets. That's to simply computationally incoherent in any real life situation. So no, I think that's a non-starter is a neural theory,. The other popular neural theory right now is stem sloths to hands but he can't explain why there are different kinds of conscious experiences either. And we certainly have reason to believe that this neural approach to consciousness is way better than the alternatives out there such as dualism and idealism and panpsychism. To a naturalist, those

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