Consciousness and Integrated Information Theory (IIT) Criticism Episode #286

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

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