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Reddit mentions of Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
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> Or can someone shed some light on what they're discussing and what this paper is proposing?
2.5) Rejection of 'trivial information closure' helps a bit with bounding conditions. We can think of an aggregate of informationally closed system as a informationally closed system, but we wouldn't think that a mere aggregate of potentially 'conscious' minds are together having a single unitive consciousness. Since trivial information closure doesn't contribute consciousness according to their hypothesis, adding independent closed systems to another system would not change the degree of consciousness of either. This may also have some relationship with the idea of integration in IIT (Information Integration Theory).
I cannot personally vouch for the book, but Andy Clark is one of 'big guys' in the field; so he can be a pretty reliable source.
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About background materials. It seemed pretty readable to me without much of a background. For statements about neural activties, I am just taking their words for it, but the citations can be places to look. You can find more about phenomena like 'blindsight' from googling, if you weren't already aware of it. As opposed to the recommendations made by the other redditor, I don't think it has much to do with anything related to the hard problem of consciousness (Nagel's Bat or Chalmer's zombie) at all and you don't need to read them for this paper - though they can interesting reads for their own sake and can help better understanding the potential limitations - but these work goes on a more philosophical direction not quite related to the scope of the paper. The equations may have some relation with information theory (again the citations may be the best bet for better background). PP seems to be most closely related to the paper with the idea of predictability being on the center. So that may something to explore for background. IIT can be another background material for this: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003588
https://www.iep.utm.edu/int-info/