Science, Technology & the Future
Christof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Science) discusses Shannon information and it’s theoretical limitations in explaining consciousness – “Information Theory misses a critical aspect of consciousness”
Christof argues that we don’t need observers to have conscious experiences (other poeple, god, etc), and that Shannon information is not enough to adequately describe conscious experience – Shannon information is about “sending information from a channel to a receiver – consciousness isn’t about sending anything to anybody.”
The ‘information’ in Integrated Information Theory (IIT) does not refer to Shannon information, “it refers to information in the original sense of the word ‘Informare’ – to give form to” – that is to give form to a high dimensional structure.
See full article here: http://www.scifuture.org/?p=4207
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Nonsense!
Pr. Koch, are you sick ? You seem to have lost weight !!!
Where does he think the structure of time and space comes from?
Consciousness. It creates and upholds the laws of reality. One, but many. Separate, but whole.
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Could anyone explain the difference between a "clockwork" mechanism that constrains it's past and future possible states and the sort of system Koch is talking about.
Two different brains with the exact same structure cannot most likely share the same consciousness there must be more into this topic maybe some quantum mechanical randomness that makes this mechanism strictly individual
Awesome interview!