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intermediate level fallacy
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Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate ... frontiersin.org Apr 17, 2018 13 facts
perspectiveThe 'intermediate level fallacy' is an approach that is considered explanatory disruptive because it introduces a new intermediate level that requires its own explanation and creates a new problem regarding its relation to consciousness.
claimThe body is considered an intermediate entity intended to bridge the gap between the world and consciousness, which the author identifies as the 'intermediate level fallacy.'
perspectiveThe author argues that theoretical backgrounds for machine consciousness, including functionalism, information, embodiment, enaction, and cognition, exhibit the symptoms of the 'intermediate level fallacy' and are examples of Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness (GOFAC).
referenceThe 'intermediate level fallacy' manifests across different GOFAC landscapes: Functionalism (realizing functional structures) is associated with access consciousness; Information and computation (transmitting causal processes) is associated with integrated consciousness; Embodiment (objects) is associated with sensory-motor loops; and Enaction (interactions between objects and environment) is associated with knowledge of sensory-motor loops.
perspectiveEnaction fails to address the 'enactive level of reality' and why such a level should exist, which the author identifies as the first step of the intermediate level fallacy.
procedureThe 'intermediate level fallacy' is a research strategy consisting of two steps: first, proposing an intermediate conceptual level (such as behavior, central workspace, information, enaction, or adaptive resonance) that is physically located but vague enough to suggest consciousness; second, redefining consciousness to appear similar to that intermediate level.
claimInformation-based approaches to consciousness, such as Giulio Tononi's Integrated Information Theory (2004, 2014), are criticized for committing the 'intermediate level fallacy' by treating information as an intermediate entity between physical reality and consciousness.
claimThe 'intermediate level fallacy' in Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness (GOFAC) research involves proposing an intermediate level of processing without explaining why that level should lead to consciousness, effectively providing an explanans without linking it to the explanandum.
claimThe paper 'Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate Level Fallacy' identifies the 'intermediate level fallacy' as a concept relevant to artificial intelligence and robotics.
perspectiveEmbodiment attempts to exploit the intermediate level fallacy by using an ambiguous definition of a body to reduce consciousness to the level of the body.
perspectiveThe authors of the paper argue that many theories of machine consciousness do not directly address the problem of consciousness, but instead discuss an intermediate problem, which they term the 'intermediate level fallacy'.
claimThe intermediate level fallacy is the central issue affecting the Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness (GOFAC) framework.
claimThe 'intermediate level fallacy' consists of two steps: first, suggesting an intermediate, safe level of explanation (such as biological mechanisms), and second, reducing the problem of consciousness to the mapping between personal reports and those mechanisms.