TheAncientGeek comments on Confused as to usefulness of 'consciousness' as a concept - LessWrong

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 14 July 2014 07:25:28PM 1 point [-]

OTOH, if there isn't some other theory that explain consciousness in terms of more fundamentall entities, properties, etc, then reductionism is out of the window...and what is left of physicalism without reductionism?

Comment author: [deleted] 14 July 2014 10:29:48PM 1 point [-]

Are you arguing against me? Because I think I agree with what you just said...

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 16 July 2014 05:49:51PM *  0 points [-]

I'm confused about how you can be backing both IIT and something like panpsychism.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 July 2014 01:47:06PM -1 points [-]

Why not? I'm just going based off the wikipedia article on IIT, but the two seem compatible.