We argue that the appeal and applicability of IIT can be greatly widened if we distinguish two flavours of the theory: strong IIT, which identifies consciousness with specific properties associated with maxima of integrated information; and weak IIT, which tests pragmatic hypotheses relating aspects of consciousness to broader measures of information dynamics.
Pedro A.M. Mediano, Fernando E. Rosas, Daniel Bor, Anil K. Seth, Adam B.Barrett. The strength of weak integrated information theory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 1 June 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.04.008 (Open access)
Pedro A.M. Mediano, Fernando E. Rosas, Daniel Bor, Anil K. Seth, Adam B.Barrett. The strength of weak integrated information theory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 1 June 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.04.008 (Open access)