Yes, I agree with all this.
(Some years ago I tried to search for “qualia” in IIT texts, and I think I got literally zero results; I was super disappointed to discover that indeed “it doesn’t even really try to make meaningful progress on the hard problem”.
I was particularly disappointed because it came from Christof Koch, and their “40hz paper” from 1990 has been a revelation and a remarkable conceptual breakthrough Francis Crick and Christof Koch, “Towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness”, so I had all those hopes and expectations for IIT because it was from Koch :-) :-( )
Yes, I agree with all this.
(Some years ago I tried to search for “qualia” in IIT texts, and I think I got literally zero results; I was super disappointed to discover that indeed “it doesn’t even really try to make meaningful progress on the hard problem”.
I was particularly disappointed because it came from Christof Koch, and their “40hz paper” from 1990 has been a revelation and a remarkable conceptual breakthrough Francis Crick and Christof Koch, “Towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness”, so I had all those hopes and expectations for IIT because it was from Koch :-) :-( )