Comment by visarga

Ten years ago I was a big fan of IIT and Giulio Tononi. But today, I prefer the reinforcement learning paradigm. It's much more powerful. Instead of consciousness, we have agents that perceive the environment and act, in order to maximize rewards. Agents are also endowed with the power to simulate / imagine possible futures so they can plan and reason. An agent is something concrete, consciousness doesn't even have a definition, that is why I appreciate the RL paradigm. It brings concreteness to an almost metaphisical research topic.