@fab13 I don't feel too adversarial against IIT, there are useful aspects to it, like how conscious experience has to be somehow related to someone's experience and the structures of their brain etc, and information integration has interesting mathematical/info theory aspects, although I find information geometry more interesting. It just doesn't really seem to say much about consciousness, like I can't relate my level of info to what it's like to be me other than maybe how much experience I can have.

It's also requires a concept space, which implies consciousness is semantically structured, which might relate more to thought than phenomenal awareness. I believe, following ideas from Thomas Metzinger, Alva Noë, Daniel Hutto and others, that someone can be conscious of something through direct perceptual experience without having to have a concept for it. Like, an experiment could happen where people are given 3D printed surreal objects that are very unlike something they've encountered before: would they have to generate concepts out of generalizations of past experienced objects about it in order to be conscious of it? Or is simply letting them perceive it/interact with it enough