Veit, Walter (2021) Consciousness, Complexity, and Evolution. [Preprint]

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Abstract

The idea that consciousness and complexity are closely related has been a major driver of the popularity of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness, despite its major formal, phenomenological, and neuroscientific shortcomings. Here, I argue that we can recover this intuition by replacing its biologically neutral notion of complexity with an evolutionary one that I shall dub ‘pathological complexity’.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Veit, Walter wrwveit@gmail.com 0000-0001-7701-8995
Keywords:	consciousness; complexity; evolution; pathological complexity; integrated information theory
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness General Issues > Models and Idealization
Depositing User:	Dr. Walter Veit
Date Deposited:	10 Aug 2021 00:33
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2023 00:43
Item ID:	19422
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness General Issues > Models and Idealization
Date:	2021
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19422

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