I’m definitely more of the Denettian “consciousness is a convenient name for a particular sort of process built out of lots of parts with mental functions” school.
I’m in that school as well. I’d never call correlates with anthropic measure like integrated information “consciousness”, there’s too much confusion there. I’m reluctant to call the purely mechanistic perception-encoding-rumination-action loop consciousness either. For that I try to stick, very strictly to “conscious behaviour”. I’d prefer something like “sentience” to take us even further from that mire of a word.
(But when I thought of the mirror chamber it occurred to me that there was more to it than “conscious behaviour isn’t mysterious, it’s just machines”. Something here is both relevant and mysterious. And so I have to find a way to reconcile the schools.)
athres ∝ mass is not supposed to be intuitive. Anthres ∝ number is very intuitive, what about the path from there to anthres ∝ mass didn’t work for you?
I’m in that school as well. I’d never call correlates with anthropic measure like integrated information “consciousness”, there’s too much confusion there. I’m reluctant to call the purely mechanistic perception-encoding-rumination-action loop consciousness either. For that I try to stick, very strictly to “conscious behaviour”. I’d prefer something like “sentience” to take us even further from that mire of a word.
(But when I thought of the mirror chamber it occurred to me that there was more to it than “conscious behaviour isn’t mysterious, it’s just machines”. Something here is both relevant and mysterious. And so I have to find a way to reconcile the schools.)
athres ∝ mass is not supposed to be intuitive. Anthres ∝ number is very intuitive, what about the path from there to anthres ∝ mass didn’t work for you?