As a critic I would welcome a more clear & rigorous defence of IIT. The problem atleast for me isn't the math in IIT. Important are issues around the axioms, postulates & an opaqueness around how phi is actually derived from the...1/3 https://twitter.com/erikphoel/status/1293555143586328577

...postulates. I also am not sure which claims from IIT are predictions vs speculation. We are asked to be open to the idea that grids might be conscious but not to the idea that unknown systems with consciousness might not share the axioms that are derived from our own. 2/3

And many of us do understand the math. We just don't think the claims made from them follow or atleast have been shown to follow. 3/3

Here is a specific question I have in IIT that I asked Tononi at a seminar recently - can a system have two different but equal MICS? If yes, which one wins & is your experience? If no, why not? What ensures this is not possible?His answer was that its not possible... 4/3

..because of indeterminism. I was left scratching my head because that made no sense to me but maybe that's just me & I didn't get it. Would appreciate if IIT folk can clarify what Tononi meant by that 5/3