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Is the neuroscientist's grandmother in the notebook? Integrated information and reference frames in the search for consciousness.

Giuseppe Riva
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2022)
This commentary suggests that the physical substrate of integrated information is dependent on the reference frame used to observe it. Furthermore, it uses a thought experiment - can a neuroscientist, locked in a closed room and connected through Zoom with his grandmother to demonstrate that the consciousness of his grannie is NOT in the PC? - to underline the problems that neglecting reference frames may cause to consciousness research.
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