My abstract for the Ernst Mach workshop on 'Conscious AI? Functionalism & it's Alternatives' was rejected. Might just go ahead & put out a blog post/video discussing the work instead. Convinced that we need to augment functionalism with stat-mech to ground the realizers.

I am open to not understanding something fundamental, but imo these just look like made-up assumptions. There is no reason to buy into these principles, unless you already think IIT is correct. What am I missing?