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Michael Levin Λ Karl Friston Λ Chris Fields on The Meta Hard Problem, Consciousness, and Babbling
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The Emergence of Awareness with Increased Complexity
Increasing complexity can lead to the sudden emergence of awareness, which is not directly related to the level of complexity itself. There is a specific threshold of complexity that must be reached to trigger awareness, and below this point, there is no awareness whatsoever. This concept challenges the idea that awareness is directly proportional to complexity and underscores the significance of reaching a critical level of complexity. The integrated information theory suggests that consciousness or awareness is determined by a simple criterion within the framework of complexity.
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