Rejecting the “formless stuff” response to the origin of consciousness problem for IIT 4.0
Límite May 31, 2026 Ignacio Cea
This paper examines and ultimately rejects a proposed solution to a problem arising from the ontological commitments of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) 4.0, particularly its claim that only conscious entities truly exist. This commitment generates the “origin of consciousness problem”: if non-conscious entities are denied genuine existence, how could consciousness evolve from non-conscious...