IIT includes commitments about the very nature of physical reality, a fact both highly unusual for an empirical theory within neuroscience, and surprisingly underappreciated within the literature. These commitments are intimately tied to the theory; they are not incidental. This paper demonstrates as much by raising certain objections in a “naive” way, and then exposing how the principled IIT responses would rely upon metaphysical positions. Along the way we draw on the IIT literature for support for these interpretations, but also point to a need for elaboration and clarification. Section 1 applies the Placement Argument in a way that leads to problem involving zombies, treated in Section 2. Section 3 frames the zombie problem as an apparent dilemma, and addresses that dilemma by drawing on claims in the IIT literature concerning physical reality. Section 4 raises a related dilemma and treats it in a way that dovetails with the treatment in Section 3 of physical reality. All of this underscores not just the breadth of IIT, but the relevance of this breadth to a full consideration of IIT’s merits.

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IIT 的科学反革命：神经科学理论的物理和形而上学意义

IIT 包括对物理现实本质的承诺，这一事实对于神经科学中的经验理论来说非常不寻常，但在文献中却出人意料地被低估了。这些承诺与理论密切相关；它们不是偶然的。本文通过以“天真”的方式提出某些反对意见，然后揭示原则性的 IIT 响应将如何依赖形而上学立场来证明这一点。在此过程中，我们利用 IIT 文献支持这些解释，但也指出需要详细说明和澄清。第 1 节以导致涉及僵尸的问题的方式应用放置论证，在第 2 节中进行处理。第 3 节将僵尸问题框定为一个明显的困境，并通过引用 IIT 文献中关于物理现实的主张来解决该困境。第 4 节提出了一个相关的困境，并以与物理现实第 3 节中的处理相吻合的方式来处理它。所有这些不仅强调了 IIT 的广度，而且强调了这种广度与充分考虑 IIT 优点的相关性。