whomever asked me about “Integrated Information Theory”: it’s an attempt at math

whomever asked me about “Integrated Information Theory”: it’s an attempt at mathematical description of the requirements. I don’t find it useful. That said the only objection I have to the theory as I undestand it is ‘integration’ because I’m not sure what the author means and I don’t want to spend time investigating a mathematical rather than causal model. That objection is reducible to whether we can access components of a memory – and we can and do. I’m pretty certain of how memories are stored in the brain, and we certainly can access episodes, and features of episodes, and we do store the fragments of each as pure relations even if we can’t introspect upon them. If that’s what he means then fine. I’m not sure. This is why I emphasize operational langauge not descriptive language.