Integrated Information Theory (IIT; Albantakis et al., 2023) is a well-known theory of consciousness. In recent years, it has drawn vocal criticism (e.g., IIT-Concerned et al., 2023, 2025). Much of that criticism has focused on a subset of IIT’s predictions possibly being counterintuitive, untestable, or both: for example, IIT predicts that simple circuits of logic gates are conscious. At the...