/sci/ - Science & Math

Each of the current popular scientific theories of consciousness do no precisely explain how their mechanism of choices must give rise to consciousness.

For Integrated Information Theory, their is no account on why integrated information must be consciousness. To make it easier, take a particular conscious experience. Say the taste of chocolate. What is the precise integrated information that must be the taste of chocolate, and could be anything else? The theory has nothing to say.

How about Orchestrated Objective Reduction coming fron Penrose and Hameroff. It is a theory that involves a quantum processes within neurons. What is the orchestrated collapse of quantum states in neuronal microtubles that must be the smell of barbeque? No comment from this theory either.

If you can not explain even a single conscious experience with your chosen mechanism, that is total faliure.

Yet, these theories are being promoted everywhere consciousness discussion takes place.