That said, I do think theories like IIT are at least slightly useful insofar as they expand our vocabulary and provide additional metrics that we might care a little bit about.
I didn’t have in mind anything profound. :) The idea is just that “degree of information integration” is one interesting metric along which to compare minds, along with metrics like “number of neurons”, “number of synapses”, “number of ATP molecules consumed per second”, “number of different brain structures”, “number of different high-level behaviors exhibited”, and a thousand other similar things.
If you expanded on this, I would be interested.
I didn’t have in mind anything profound. :) The idea is just that “degree of information integration” is one interesting metric along which to compare minds, along with metrics like “number of neurons”, “number of synapses”, “number of ATP molecules consumed per second”, “number of different brain structures”, “number of different high-level behaviors exhibited”, and a thousand other similar things.