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Letter: Pluses and minuses of new take on consciousness (2)

Published 20 May 2020

From Will McNeill, Southampton, Hampshire, UK

As a model to inform our understanding of consciousness, integrated information theory sounds promising. Yet usually when a theory produces a conclusion that seems absurd – in this case that both the universe and simple data processing algorithms are conscious – the sensible working hypothesis is to suppose it is false.

Issue no. 3283 published 23 May 2020

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