What Is Consciousness?

Consciousness is how powerfully inte rated pieces of information are. The more tightly the integration, the more powerful the processing a person does. But why is consciousness doing this massive complexification of information? So he actually proposes something like a turning test for consciousness. He says you can test to see how conscious a system is by giving it anomalous pictures and figuring out if the pictures don't make good sense.

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