Consciousness isn't a physical property, though. Trying to come up with physical explanations like putting it in particles is not even possible to falsify.
From TFA:
The materialist viewpoint states that consciousness is derived entirely from physical matter. It’s unclear, though, exactly how this could work.
And from "unclear how exactly this could work" they're directly going to crazy speculation. And is it just me or does "Integrated Information Theory" sound eerily like something a homoeopath would come up with? Which, by coincidence is a big load of long-debunked BS that nonetheless still occasionally manages to creep its way onto university curricula.
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There are no "emergent properties" in Physics.
Consciousness isn't a physical property, though. Trying to come up with physical explanations like putting it in particles is not even possible to falsify.
From TFA:
The materialist viewpoint states that consciousness is derived entirely from physical matter. It’s unclear, though, exactly how this could work.
And from "unclear how exactly this could work" they're directly going to crazy speculation. And is it just me or does "Integrated Information Theory" sound eerily like something a homoeopath would come up with? Which, by coincidence is a big load of long-debunked BS that nonetheless still occasionally manages to creep its way onto university curricula.
Didn't they know? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...