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.
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.