Reddit mentions of Plum and Posner's Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma (Contemporary Neurology Series)

I'm going to try to unpack Aaronson's math, difficult as its abstruseness meets Tononi's own complexity head-on. But it's an important enough claim that a lot of bright-eyed academics have either been entranced by or doubt-stricken by the utopian implications.

What makes intuitive sense to me is that Tononi's empirical work clicks with my experience of using practical and physiological studies to apply Plum and Posner's classic "Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma" to real-life cases of disorders of consciousness, where self-awareness tracks remarkably well with electrophysiological indices, from tests investigating the comatose to the mathematically gifted. I'm not sure how well Aaronson's CS perspective applies to the computational mechanism of the human brain, but I suppose this is an open question.

I can only say that I'm impressed by Tononi's attempt at rigor and his many revisions of his work to answer thoughtful caveats proffered by, for instance, Aaronson.

I appreciate your supplied contradictions to the theory. This was what I was looking for. If you're aware of any other attempts at such a theory that are as quantitatively falsifiable as Tononi's, as opposed to the hand-waviness of every other "philosopher" involved in the question, I would be grateful if you could steer me in the right direction.