Later Was Hard, Now Is Much Simple: A Category‑Error Diagnosis of the IIT–GNWT Debate and a TRIAD‑Based Reorganisation of the Hard Problem
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) September 1, 2026 Valeriia Zaiats
The adversarial collaboration between Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) by the Cogitate Consortium (2025) is widely read as a draw. I propose a simpler reading: it was a category error.IIT describes what is projected into experience — the posterior hot zone with high integrated information. GNWT describes when content becomes accessible for global...