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Title: What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?
Authors: Arnold, Derek H. (AUTHOR), Baxter, Mark G. (AUTHOR), Bekinschtein, Tristan A. (AUTHOR), Bengio, Yoshua (AUTHOR), Bisley, James W. (AUTHOR), Browning, Jacob (AUTHOR), Buonomano, Dean (AUTHOR), Carmel, David (AUTHOR), Carrasco, Marisa (AUTHOR), Carruthers, Peter (AUTHOR), Carter, Olivia (AUTHOR), Chang, Dorita H. F. (AUTHOR), Charest, Ian (AUTHOR), Cherkaoui, Mouslim (AUTHOR), Cleeremans, Axel (AUTHOR), Cohen, Michael A. (AUTHOR), Corlett, Philip R. (AUTHOR), Christoff, Kalina (AUTHOR), Cumming, Sam (AUTHOR), Cushing, Cody A. (AUTHOR)
Source: Nature Neuroscience. Apr2025, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p689-693. 5p.
Abstract: Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal — integrated information theory — has recently been labeled as 'pseudoscience', which has caused a heated open debate. Here we discuss the case and argue that the theory is indeed unscientific because its core claims are untestable even in principle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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