[...] Quotations who favor something like IIT [...]
The quotation author in the example I’ve made up does not favor IIT. In general, I think IIT represents a very small fraction (< 5%, possibly < 1%) of Camp #2. It’s the most popular theory, but Camp #2 is extremely heterogeneous in their ideas, so this is not a high bar.
Certainly if you look at philosophers you won’t find any connection to IIT since the majority of them lived before IIT was developed.
Your framing comes across as an attempt to decrement the credibility of people who advocate Quotation-type intuition by associating them with IIT,
If you can point to which part of the post made it sound like that, I’d be interested in correcting it because that was very much not intended.
Is the X window server “low level” or “high level”?
Clarification: The high-level vs. low-level thing is a frame to apply to natural phenomena to figure out how far removed from the laws of physics they are and, consequently, whether you should look for equations or heuristics to describe them. The most low-level entities are electrons, up quarks, electromagnetism, etc. (I also call those ‘fundamental’). The next most low level things are protons or neutrons (made up of fundamental elements). Molecules are very low level. Processes between or within atoms are very low level. Planetary motions are pretty low level.
Answer: The X window server is an output of human brains, so it’s super super high level. It takes a lot of steps to get from the laws of physics to human organisms writing code. Programming language is irrelevant. Any writing done by humans, natural language or programming language, is super high level.
The quotation author in the example I’ve made up does not favor IIT. In general, I think IIT represents a very small fraction (< 5%, possibly < 1%) of Camp #2. It’s the most popular theory, but Camp #2 is extremely heterogeneous in their ideas, so this is not a high bar.
Certainly if you look at philosophers you won’t find any connection to IIT since the majority of them lived before IIT was developed.
If you can point to which part of the post made it sound like that, I’d be interested in correcting it because that was very much not intended.
Clarification: The high-level vs. low-level thing is a frame to apply to natural phenomena to figure out how far removed from the laws of physics they are and, consequently, whether you should look for equations or heuristics to describe them. The most low-level entities are electrons, up quarks, electromagnetism, etc. (I also call those ‘fundamental’). The next most low level things are protons or neutrons (made up of fundamental elements). Molecules are very low level. Processes between or within atoms are very low level. Planetary motions are pretty low level.
Answer: The X window server is an output of human brains, so it’s super super high level. It takes a lot of steps to get from the laws of physics to human organisms writing code. Programming language is irrelevant. Any writing done by humans, natural language or programming language, is super high level.