According to IIT, an inactive grid of connected logic gates that are not performing any useful computation can be conscious—possibly even more so than humans17; organoids created out of petri-dishes, as well as human fetuses at very early stages of development, are likely conscious according to the theory18,19; on some interpretations, even plants may be conscious20. These claims have been widely considered untestable, unscientific, ‘magicalist’, or a ‘departure from science as we know it’15, 21-27. Given its panpsychist commitments, until the theory as a whole—not just some hand-picked auxiliary components trivially shared by many others or already known to be true28-31—is empirically testable, we feel that the pseudoscience label should indeed apply.

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