Groups can be conscious in senses that matter, and the global mind may be waking up. A company like Apple shows awareness, self-awareness, goal-directed behaviour and integrated information, and Engel and Malone's measure of integrated information for the internet rose significantly from 2008 to 2014.

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  The only place all the different functional points of view come together is at the very top, which leads to an unusually centralized form of information integration.

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  The measured value of phi for the internet grew significantly over the six-year period we studied from 2008 to 2014.

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  there are many important senses in which groups can, indeed, be conscious

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  called the integrated information theory (IIT) — should be labelled as pseudoscience

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  In this sense, phi can be viewed as a potential metric of effective group collaboration.

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