Pansychism; a good discussion (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, January 02, 2014, 19:58 (3978 days ago) @ dhw

"These century-old arguments bring me to the conceptual framework of the integrated information theory (IIT) of psychiatrist and neuroscientist Giulio Tononi of the University of Wisconsin...Madison. It postulates that conscious experience is a fundamental aspect of reality and is identical to a particular type of information—integrated information. Consciousness depends on a physical substrate but is not reducible to it. That is, my experience of seeing an aquamarine blue is inexorably linked to my brain but is different from my brain.
 
"Any system that possesses some nonzero amount of integrated information experiences something. Let me repeat: any system that has even one bit of integrated information has a very minute conscious experience."-
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-consciousness-universal&page=5