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> everything is made of particles
> particles make neurons and synapses
> there are more neurons in the brain than stars in the galaxy
> with evolution, given enough time by accidental brute force, particular phenomenon survive and emerge.
> consciousness arises out of this complexity for survival of environmental awareness
> the feeling of qualia is what's considered an epiphenomenon.
> essentially, the brain has developed machinery to model and make sense of what it sees. It then tries to make sense of the fact that its making sense, which creates a mind-body stimula. Conciousness is a the mind's model of explaining what its doing to itself.
> Humans really are zombies. It's already been proven that you can get someone to do something milliseconds before they decide to do it. Conciousness lags just a little behind the deterministic machine that governs our thoughts and actions.
> we already have AI doing a decent job with 1% of the neurons brains.
> AI just needs to hit the evolutionary part of self-modeling
IIT is appealing to people because its essentially pseudo science that uses cute axioms that make people feel like they are explaining consciousness with math while still being able to hang onto their notions of what they want consciousness to be. It says that particles themselves must have a measurable amount of consciousness and that "conciseness" exits as field much like other particle fields, but that field is only activated through the iterated arrangement of other physical particles. people in IIT tend to forget that humans are a bunch of sperm that hit an egg. nothing that magical or spiritual develops during pregnancy, but I guess its a nice story. And since region is dying, IIT might be the next religion people can feel comfortable using.
