The purpose of this article is to provide an overall critical appraisal of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness. We explore how it has evolved and what problems are involved in the theory. IIT is a hypothesis that explains the consciousness in terms of integrated information. It argues that the fundamental properties of experience can be properly analyzed and explained by...
In this article we explore the idea that consciousness is a language-complete \nphenomenon, that is, one which is as difficult to formalise as the foundations \nof language itself. We posit that the reason consciousness resists scientific \ndescription is because the language of science is too weak; its power to \nrender phenomena objective is exhausted by the sophistication of the brain’s...