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My colleague @david-p-reichert.bsky.social and I have a new paper examinig the experiments designed to test Integrated Information Theory!
New preprint: Does Integrated Information Theory (IIT) make experimental predictions about consciousness?
Paper: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/gauqm_v1
Blog post for summary: davidpreichert.substack.com/p/iit-experimental-predictions
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Paper: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/gauqm_v1
Blog post for summary: davidpreichert.substack.com/p/iit-experimental-predictions
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A critical look at the experimental predictions of the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness
In a previous post, I discussed Anil Seth’s paper on biological naturalism. Together with my colleague Rif A. Saurous, we also had an in-depth look at Integrated Information Theory (IIT), the topic of...
davidpreichert.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
My colleague @david-p-reichert.bsky.social and I have a new paper examinig the experiments designed to test Integrated Information Theory!
Sometimes the light. (Taken on a morning walk near my house.)
December 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Sometimes the light. (Taken on a morning walk near my house.)
Dumbest feeling of the day: feeling that the oreo malt I ordered at a diner at breakfast was too sweet. I ordered an oreo malt at a diner! That's literally telling them to put vanilla ice cream, oreos, and milk in a blender and that's exactly what they did. This one's on me.
October 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Dumbest feeling of the day: feeling that the oreo malt I ordered at a diner at breakfast was too sweet. I ordered an oreo malt at a diner! That's literally telling them to put vanilla ice cream, oreos, and milk in a blender and that's exactly what they did. This one's on me.
GPT interaction of the week. This is what I'm (sometimes) reduced to:
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
GPT interaction of the week. This is what I'm (sometimes) reduced to:
"Any sufficiently busy person is indistinguishable from they don't like you anymore."
October 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"Any sufficiently busy person is indistinguishable from they don't like you anymore."
Do you ever have that feeling where you’re listening to your likes playlist and a great song comes on and you want to like it but then you remember you already liked it and you’re a tiny bit sad because you want some way to thank the song for being so good but you got nothing?
May 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Do you ever have that feeling where you’re listening to your likes playlist and a great song comes on and you want to like it but then you remember you already liked it and you’re a tiny bit sad because you want some way to thank the song for being so good but you got nothing?
Surely I'm not the first one to realize that the government sending someone to torture prison based on an administrative error and then being unwilling to unable to bring them back is literally the plot of Terry Gilliam's Brazil?
#samlowryforpresident
#samlowryforpresident
April 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Surely I'm not the first one to realize that the government sending someone to torture prison based on an administrative error and then being unwilling to unable to bring them back is literally the plot of Terry Gilliam's Brazil?
#samlowryforpresident
#samlowryforpresident
How many of you would go to see a Phil Collins concert if it was just him playing that drum break from "In The Air Tonight" over and over again for two hours? I would. Just curious.
April 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
How many of you would go to see a Phil Collins concert if it was just him playing that drum break from "In The Air Tonight" over and over again for two hours? I would. Just curious.
Bad news everyone: If you lose your wallet in the dream, you lose your wallet in real life.
March 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Bad news everyone: If you lose your wallet in the dream, you lose your wallet in real life.