Jake BrowningOct 29, 20237 minFalsification, Paradigm Selection, and Integrated Information TheoryA strange response to integrated information theory (IIT) being labeled a pseudoscience is the claim that "scientists only know Karl...
Jake BrowningSep 20, 20234 minA (Hopefully) Final Comment on Integrated Information Theory of ConsciousnessThere's an old story (possibly apocryphal) about a scholar who went to a university and presented a paper on telepathy. The study had...
Jake BrowningSep 18, 20238 min"Consciousness Winter" wasn't that cold--and the "spring" generated more heat than lightThere is a story that goes, "in the 20th century, you couldn't talk about consciousness. Before Edelman, Crick, and Koch, it was a bad...