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Abstract The idea that consciousness and complexity are closely related has been a major driver of the popularity of integrated information theory (IIT) of consciousness, despite its major formal, phenomenological,… Click to show full abstract
Abstract The idea that consciousness and complexity are closely related has been a major driver of the popularity of integrated information theory (IIT) of consciousness, despite its major formal, phenomenological, and neuroscientific shortcomings. Here, I argue that we can recover this intuition by replacing its biologically neutral notion of complexity with an evolutionary one that I shall dub “pathological complexity.”
Keywords:
complexity evolution;
consciousness complexity;
complexity
Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2022
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Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2022
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