IIT, TGD, ZEO & Qualia

Abstract

The integrated information theory (IIT) of Tononi and Koch that appeared around 2015 is materialistic and does not discuss problems like free will. The IIT approach does not mention quantum physics and the connections to physics are also otherwise rather meager. Deterministic information processing involving feedback is assumed to be an essential prerequisite of consciousness. The approach starts from panpsychism and deduces a quantitative criterion claimed to serve as a measure for the level of consciousness of the system considered. The somewhat surprising conclusion is that computers are probably not conscious. I have written about IIT around 2016 but at that time I was not mature to realize that the proposal of the review article for the identification of qualia allows to sharpen the TGD view of qualia in terms of zero energy ontology (ZEO). The improved understanding of ZEO and the emergence of holography = holomorphy vision leading to the interpretation of space-time surfaces as numbers motivates the reconsideration of the questions related to IIT,TGD,ZEO and qualia.