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Consciousness and the Paranormal — Part 3

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Tonini has an entry on IIT at a site called Scholarpedia. It provides an overview of IIT and addresses many aspects of philosophy of mind head-on. I continue to find it the most promising approach to the explanatory gap and to the relationship between the mind and body.

I still don't see how it addresses what I conceive must be a transition from "experience in itself" to "experience of itself." It may be that Tonini addresses this and I havent found it yet.

Integrated information theory - Scholarpedia
 
Soupie said:
Tonini has an entry on IIT at a site called Scholarpedia. It provides an overview of IIT and addresses many aspects of philosophy of mind head-on. I continue to find it the most promising approach to the explanatory gap and to the relationship between the mind and body.

I still don't see how it addresses what I conceive must be a transition from "experience in itself" to "experience of itself." It may be that Tonini addresses this and I havent found it yet.

Integrated information theory - Scholarpedia
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uh - huh ....
 
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No, but I will asap. (Time Bandits is one of my all time favorites.)
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In most of his films, Gilliam never quite hits his (ambitious goals) - but gets credit for his ambitions. (see Lost in La Mancha)

You will recognize this film immediately for the visual style and there are some intriguing bits (the use of the term "objects" and "entities" - some of the dialogue early in the film has an OOO feel to it) - but he never develops these ideas in depth (or maybe he conveys them visually and I don't see it ... and so, like many of his films, to me it seems to lack depth for the subject matter - but he is taking on ideas few directors will touch.

This film has a smaller feel to it than some of his other films - even the cosmic scenes seem constrained but might have been much better on the big screen.

Anyway, let me know what you think!
 
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