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Hedda Hassel Mørch asks: what is IIT all about?

https://philosophynow.org/issues/121/The_Integrated_Information_Theory_of_Consciousness

The article says:

IIT has radical implications. If IIT is true, we could in principle build a ‘consciousness-meter’ that tells us whether any system is conscious, and to what level: from comatose patients to infants; from simple animals and plants to robots and next generation AI.

But I'm having a hard time understanding how IIT is falsifiable as a theory and in what way IIT solves the problem of other minds in a such a way that we could demonstrate that e.g. robots are conscious, intelligent agents.

Anyone knows how IIT can be put to the test to answer these kind of questions?

Locate the unexplanable operation in the robot. If there isn't one, the robot can't be conscious. The robot is completely explained by circuitry without consciousness. While this test will succeed, it's conclusion is already known.