 The optimistic views of IIT’s developers are not shared by the scientific community at large.The claims of IIT as a theory of consciousness “are not scientifically established or testable at the moment” according to an open letter to the National Institute of Health signed by a former president of the society for neuroscience, and multiple members of the National Academy of Science and Fellowship of the Royal Society who wish to see funding directed towards more empirical projects examining neural mechanisms of conscious and unconscious states.Theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson has criticized IIT by demonstrating through its own formulation that an inactive series of logic gates, arranged in the correct way, would not only be conscious but be “unboundedly more conscious than humans are.” Tononi himself agrees with the assessment and argues that according to IIT, an even simpler arrangement of inactive logic gates, if large enough, would also be conscious.