one would also think that a whole can only be expressed as a Whole in a holistic way. Consciousness solved! — PoeticUniverse
Irony or Sarcasm or Tautology?
Or it is that the Boss has no doing associated with it, per Koch, and the nonconscious guys continue to attend to the goings on by voting or whatnot. — PoeticUniverse
My personal interpretation of Koch's IIT Consciousness --- in view of Dennett's "Multiple Drafts" model and Minsky's "Society of Mind" --- is that 98% of human behavior is carried-out by subconscious automatic instinctive & Intuitive processes. Which leaves only the most important 2% of decisions for the the CEO (the Conscious Whole) to approve or veto. It's only that final say-so (judgment) that we can truly call Free Will. At best, we are absentee (golf-course) executives. Otherwise, we are all philosophical zombies.
If you are a zombie, you're an exceptionally insightful automaton.
Multiple Drafts : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained
Society of Mind : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind
PS__The weak point of these subconscious mind theories is "what to do in case of a tied vote by the underlings?" Do nothing, or kick it upstairs to the boss? Those who get emotionally tied-in-knots are acting irrationally. Rare rational thinkers make an executive or judicial decision and move-on.