Integrated Information Theory and Panpsychism

Abstract

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) has been challenged, among other reasons, for its supposed commitment to panpsychism (the belief that mental qualities pertain, in different degrees, to all forms of being, not just to entities endowed with highly complex brains). Here I want to argue that in order to avoid accusations of this kind IIT must revisit the internal consistency and explanatory completeness of its axioms, by clarifying the set of conceptual restrictions that may overcome potential panpsychistic commitments.