fluchess comments on Open Thread for February 11 - 17 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Coscott 11 February 2014 06:08PM

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Comment author: fluchess 12 February 2014 12:26:21PM 1 point [-]

IIT proposes that consciousness is integrated information.

The key difference between a brain and the hard disk is the disk has no way of knowing what it is actually sensing. Brain can tell difference between many more sense and receive and use more forms of information. The camera is not conscious of the fact it sensing light and colour.

This article is a good introduction to the topic and the photodiode example in the paper is the simple version of your question http://www.biolbull.org/content/215/3/216.full

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 12 February 2014 09:50:18PM 1 point [-]

Thanks! The article was good. At this moment, I am... not convinced, but also not able to find an obvious error.