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View article: Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction
Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction Open
Advances in animal sentience research, neural organoids, and artificial intelligence reinforce the relevance of justifying attributions of consciousness to nonstandard systems. Clarifying the argumentative structure behind these attributio…
View article: Phi-monads are conceptually problematic and mathematically undefined in Integrated Information Theory 4.0
Phi-monads are conceptually problematic and mathematically undefined in Integrated Information Theory 4.0 Open
The Integrated Information Theory (IIT) 4.0 is an influential framework aiming to explain consciousness mathematically in terms of intrinsic existence, namely what exists for itself in a specific, maximally irreducible, structured form. II…
View article: Three arguments against metaphysical structuralism in consciousness research
Three arguments against metaphysical structuralism in consciousness research Open
Phenomenal structuralism is the view that understanding consciousness requires describing its relational and structural properties, a perspective that can have implications for both explaining why experiences feel the way they do and ident…
View article: Only consciousness truly exists? Two problems for IIT 4.0’s ontology
Only consciousness truly exists? Two problems for IIT 4.0’s ontology Open
In this article we present two ontological problems for the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness 4.0: what we call the (i) the intrinsicality 2.0 problem, and (ii) the engineering problem. These problems entail that truly existin…
View article: Big Bang consciousness: IIT 4.0 and the origin of subjective experience
Big Bang consciousness: IIT 4.0 and the origin of subjective experience Open
This paper addresses a problem that arises from the ontological commitments of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) 4.0, particularly its stance that only conscious entities truly exist. This position leads to the "origin of consciousness p…
View article: (Dis)confirming theories of consciousness and their predictions: towards a Lakatosian consciousness science
(Dis)confirming theories of consciousness and their predictions: towards a Lakatosian consciousness science Open
The neuroscience of consciousness is undergoing a significant empirical acceleration thanks to several adversarial collaborations that intend to test different predictions of rival theories of consciousness. In this context, it is importan…
View article: When philosophical nuance matters: safeguarding consciousness research from restrictive assumptions
When philosophical nuance matters: safeguarding consciousness research from restrictive assumptions Open
In this paper, we revisit the debate surrounding the Unfolding Argument (UA) against causal structure theories of consciousness (as well as the hard-criteria research program it prescribes), using it as a platform for discussing theoretica…
View article: The Fundamental Tension in Integrated Information Theory 4.0’s Realist Idealism
The Fundamental Tension in Integrated Information Theory 4.0’s Realist Idealism Open
Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is currently one of the most influential scientific theories of consciousness. Here, we focus specifically on a metaphysical aspect of the theory’s most recent version (IIT 4.0), what we may call its ide…
View article: The Fundamental Tension in Integrated Information Theory 4.0’s Realist Idealism
The Fundamental Tension in Integrated Information Theory 4.0’s Realist Idealism Open
Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is currently one of the most influential scientific theories of consciousness. Here, we focus specifically on a metaphysical aspect of the theory’s most recent version (IIT 4.0), what we may call its ide…
View article: Emergentist Integrated Information Theory
Emergentist Integrated Information Theory Open
The integrated information theory (IIT) is an ambitious theory of consciousness that aims to provide both a neuroscientific and a metaphysical account of consciousness by identifying consciousness with integrated information. In the philos…
View article: Can the Integrated Information Theory Explain Consciousness from Consciousness Itself?
Can the Integrated Information Theory Explain Consciousness from Consciousness Itself? Open
In consciousness science, theories often differ not only in the account of consciousness they arrive at, but also with respect to how they understand their starting point. Some approaches begin with experimentally gathered data, whereas ot…
View article: Me, You, and the Measurement. Founding a Science of Consciousness on the Second Person Perspective
Me, You, and the Measurement. Founding a Science of Consciousness on the Second Person Perspective Open
Modern science was born when physicists started studying phenomena by recruiting mathematical explanatory frameworks. Since this appears to be the direction followed in recent studies on consciousness, philosophers have to analyze the just…