
#113 — Consciousness and the Self
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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Integrative Information Theory, I I T, Is a Theory of Consciousness
integrade information theory, i i t tries to do. What it tries to do starts with a bunch of phenomenological axiom so it doesn't start by asking the question, what's in the brain and how does that go along with consciousness. It tries to identify a axiomatic features of conscious experience, things that should be self evident,. And then try to, from there, rive at what are the necessary and sufficient mechanistic basis? Given these axioms, it will call these postulates. There are in the current version of aty five of theseAxioms, but i think we just consider a couple of them, information and integration.
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