Quiz - 03/19

Question 1

Axiom of existence

Answer 1

• Consciousness is real and undeniable
• existence: for anything to exist it has to be able to have.a cause and effect on the physical world

Question 2

Axiom of composition

Answer 2

each experience has structure

example: visual experience has color, shape, form, etc.

Question 3

Axiom of information

Answer 3

• the way an experience is distinguishes it from all other possible experiences
• consciousness is specific, an experience of pure darkness and silence is what it is because among other things it is not filled with light, or noise, it contains this specific moment

Question 4

Axiom of integration

Answer 4

• the elements of an experience are interdependent and experienced together
• consciousness is unified

Question 5

Axiom of exclusion

Answer 5

• each conscious experience has a set of phenomenal distinctions
• it has neither less or more, and it flows at the speed it flows, neither faster nor slower

Question 6

Phi

Answer 6

• the structure of physical system must be unified; measured by a mathematical quantity called phi
• maximal irreducible cause-effect structure “phi”
• explanatory power: an experience is equivalent to its cause-effect structure

Question 7

PCI

Answer 7

perturbational complexity index

• the PCI is an index of human consciousness that reflects the information content of the brain’s response to a magnetic stimulus
• PCI discriminates the level of consciousness in brain injured patients such as vegetative states, locked in syndrome, and minimally conscious states
• complexity of the signal from EEG, if there is a higher response it is a higher complexity
• surrogate for phi

Question 8

Inferential powers of iit

Answer 8

what things in our world are potentially conscious?

• octopus, cortical organoids, collective consciousness, AI?
• IIT people say no to collective consciousness because it does not have causal effects