This is very informative to me, thanks for taking the time to reply. For what it’s worth, my exposure to theories of consciousness is from the neuroscience + cognitive science angle. (I very nearly started a PhD in IIT in Anil Seth’s lab back in 2020.) The overview of the field I had in my head could be crudely expressed as: higher-order theories and global workspace theories are ~dead (though, on the latter, Baars and co. have yet to give up); the exciting frontier research is in IIT and predictive processing and re-entry theories.
I’ve been puzzled by the mentions of GWT in EA circles—the noteworthy example here is how philosopher Rob Long gave GWT a fair amount of air time in his 80k episode. But given EA’s skew toward philosopher-types, this now makes a lot more sense.
This is very informative to me, thanks for taking the time to reply. For what it’s worth, my exposure to theories of consciousness is from the neuroscience + cognitive science angle. (I very nearly started a PhD in IIT in Anil Seth’s lab back in 2020.) The overview of the field I had in my head could be crudely expressed as: higher-order theories and global workspace theories are ~dead (though, on the latter, Baars and co. have yet to give up); the exciting frontier research is in IIT and predictive processing and re-entry theories.
I’ve been puzzled by the mentions of GWT in EA circles—the noteworthy example here is how philosopher Rob Long gave GWT a fair amount of air time in his 80k episode. But given EA’s skew toward philosopher-types, this now makes a lot more sense.