If I’m skimming right, you’re saying that you’d like to know how to write code that calculates how much consciousness a calculation has. Correct? I agree that such a thing would be nice. But it’s at least as hard (and probably much harder) than solving the problem of consciousness. Also, if illusionism is correct, I’m not sure that writing such code is even possible.
Right, I feel like there’s a tradeoff between interestingness of consciousness theory and the viability of computational predicates. IIT gives you a nice computer program, but isn’t very interesting.
If I’m skimming right, you’re saying that you’d like to know how to write code that calculates how much consciousness a calculation has. Correct? I agree that such a thing would be nice. But it’s at least as hard (and probably much harder) than solving the problem of consciousness. Also, if illusionism is correct, I’m not sure that writing such code is even possible.
Right, I feel like there’s a tradeoff between interestingness of consciousness theory and the viability of computational predicates. IIT gives you a nice computer program, but isn’t very interesting.