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I'm looking around for material that would provide someone without a background in neuroscience some understanding of the debate about Integrated Information Theory and the study of consciousness.

I've read Tononi and Koch's 2015 "Consciousness: here, there, and everywhere?"
doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0167

I was wondering what have been the most important critiques of this theory, and where the debate now stands.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

Very bad advice…

https://collabfund.com/blog/very-bad-advice

This entire post is worth reading. Each line is worth considering, reflecting and then realizing that there are irrational things you might still be doing.

Pursue status at the expense of independence.

This was a hard learned lesson.

I found there’s a connective tissue around most of the listed items: it’s resolving clarity around what you want.

It is only human to look around you to attempt to discover yourself. This used to be limited to our community and people whom we knew / learned about. The internet opened us up to more people doing things that we think we want to do. I find that social media has amplified this to an unhealthy point. I, myself, fell into the trap of losing my bearings because I was trying to follow what others did. This never gave me the satisfaction that I wanted, and so, I will compensate in other ways, and see other people doing other things and repeat the process. This is a highly vicious cycle.

To break the cycle means doing a simple, but hard process:

  • reduce / remove external stimuli
  • reflect for clarity
  • take an action towards achieving what you want (independent of the outcome)
  • repeat

This is the hard work of living, experiencing life and clarifying what you want to do.

Now, there is one advice here that I do think can be taken the wrong way, so for anyone reading this, consider this a warning:

Assume effort is rewarded more than results.

This is true. Results are rewarded more than effort. However, those are the rewards that others provide you.

If you frame the reward, then effort is rewarded irregardless of the outcome. The effort often is the reward for yourself, because there’s neuroscience associated with it. Our brain rewards us for doing hard things and achieving success. However, weirdly, it is also incredibly bad at framing success. That comes with clarity and experience. Framing success on external factors is a fool’s errand. You shall never be in control of your success and all the resultant outcomes from it.

Collaborative Fund · Very Bad AdviceA boy once asked Charlie Munger, “What advice do you have for someone like me to succeed in life?” Munger…

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