&gt;&gt; &quot;When modern science swept away this dualistic symbolic schema, Europeans came to see themselves as inhabitants of a Euclidean void: we lived on a planet that orbited an insignificant star in potentially infinite space.&quot;<p>Such a gross misunderstanding of late antiquity&#x2F;medieval cosmology.<p>&quot;As an admirer of co-ordinate geometry, I like Tononi’s concept; at the same time, I don’t accept information theory as a bridge to subjectivity.&quot;<p>In my master thesis on consciousness, I dealt with Tononi&#x27;s thesis and, in spite of the publicity he gets, I too find his theory to be bogus. It&#x27;s like saying Maxwell&#x27;s equations are light. Or, put differently, it&#x27;s like saying a computer is information because it processes&#x2F;produces information.