…there is a lot of variety and controversy. Some other prominent theories, such as there's a neuroscientist called Giulio Tononi who has a theory called the integrated information theory of consciousness. This makes other incredibly counterintuitive predictions,…

…much more widely distributed in nature. A more sophisticated and mathematical version of this is integrated information theory of Giulio Tononi, who points out that consciousness has an integrative capacity. It doesn't work unless there's a high degree of…

…future actions. But things which are mere composites are not likely to be conscious in this way. This is also a point that Tononi makes in his integrated information theory. A table, a chair, a computer, a car, a rock that's just rolled down a mountain…

…point about this panpsychist argument in the present climate is that most panpsychists who are around today, Straussen, Goff, Tononi, Koch, the neuroscientist who used to work with Francis Crick, who used to be an absolutely hardline reductionist materialist,…