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Exclusion and Underdetermined Qualia
Integrated information theory (IIT) asserts that both the level and the quality of consciousness can be explained by the ability of physical systems to integrate information. Although the scientific content and empirical prospects of IIT have attracted interest, this paper focuses on another aspect...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514894/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33267119 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21040405 |
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description | Integrated information theory (IIT) asserts that both the level and the quality of consciousness can be explained by the ability of physical systems to integrate information. Although the scientific content and empirical prospects of IIT have attracted interest, this paper focuses on another aspect of IIT, its unique theoretical structure, which relates the phenomenological axioms with the ontological postulates. In particular, the relationship between the exclusion axiom and the exclusion postulate is unclear. Moreover, the exclusion postulate leads to a serious problem in IIT: the quale underdetermination problem. Therefore, in this paper, I will explore answers to the following three questions: (1) how does the exclusion axiom lead to the exclusion postulate? (2) How does the exclusion postulate cause the qualia underdetermination problem? (3) Is there a solution to this problem? I will provide proposals and arguments for each question. If successful, IIT can be confirmed with respect to, not only its theoretical foundation, but also its practical application. |
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spelling | pubmed-75148942020-11-09 Exclusion and Underdetermined Qualia Moon, Kyumin Entropy (Basel) Article Integrated information theory (IIT) asserts that both the level and the quality of consciousness can be explained by the ability of physical systems to integrate information. Although the scientific content and empirical prospects of IIT have attracted interest, this paper focuses on another aspect of IIT, its unique theoretical structure, which relates the phenomenological axioms with the ontological postulates. In particular, the relationship between the exclusion axiom and the exclusion postulate is unclear. Moreover, the exclusion postulate leads to a serious problem in IIT: the quale underdetermination problem. Therefore, in this paper, I will explore answers to the following three questions: (1) how does the exclusion axiom lead to the exclusion postulate? (2) How does the exclusion postulate cause the qualia underdetermination problem? (3) Is there a solution to this problem? I will provide proposals and arguments for each question. If successful, IIT can be confirmed with respect to, not only its theoretical foundation, but also its practical application. MDPI 2019-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7514894/ /pubmed/33267119 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21040405 Text en © 2019 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Moon, Kyumin Exclusion and Underdetermined Qualia |
title | Exclusion and Underdetermined Qualia |
title_full | Exclusion and Underdetermined Qualia |
title_fullStr | Exclusion and Underdetermined Qualia |
title_full_unstemmed | Exclusion and Underdetermined Qualia |
title_short | Exclusion and Underdetermined Qualia |
title_sort | exclusion and underdetermined qualia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514894/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33267119 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21040405 |
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