Tonight I will be giving my take on the recent controversy and criticisms surrounding Guilio Tononi’s “Integrated Information Theory”. A group neuroscientists have gotten 126 scientists to sign a paper calling IIT pseudoscience. I will get into the inner workings and inside baseball regarding these topics.  

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*Here are a list of scientific papers referenced in this episode: The strength of weak integrated information theory Pedro A.M. Mediano, Fernando E. Rosas, Daniel Bor, Anil K. Seth, Adam B. Barrett ⁠

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661322000924⁠ 

The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness as Pseudoscience Stephen Fleming, Chris Frith, Mel Goodale, Hakwan Lau, Joseph E LeDoux, Alan L. F. Lee, Matthias Michel, Adrian Owen, Megan A. K. Peters, Heleen A Slagter ⁠

https://psyarxiv.com/zsr78/⁠ 

The integrated information theory of consciousness: A case of mistaken identity Bjorn Merker, Kenneth Williford, David Rudrauf ⁠

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34006338/⁠ 

The Mathematical Structure of Integrated Information Theory Johannes Kleiner, Sean Tull ⁠

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fams.2020.602973/full⁠ 

Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness (IEP) Francis Fallon ⁠

https://iep.utm.edu/integrated-information-theory-of-consciousness/⁠ 

What Does ‘Information’ Mean in Integrated Information Theory? Olimpia Lombardi, Cristian López ⁠

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7512479/⁠ 

Separating weak integrated information theory into inspired and aspirational approaches  Angus Leung, Naotsugu Tsuchiya ⁠

https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2023/1/niad012/7169163⁠