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What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?

Klincewicz,Michał
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Cheng,Tony
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Schmitz,Michael
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Sebastián,Miguel Ángel
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Snyder,Joel S.
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Arnold,Derek H.
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Baxter,Mark G.
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Bekinschtein,Tristan A.
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Bengio,Yoshua
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Bisley,James W.
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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
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2025-04
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Klincewicz, M, Cheng, T, Schmitz, M, Sebastián, M Á, Snyder, J S, Arnold, D H, Baxter, M G, Bekinschtein, T A, Bengio, Y, Bisley, J W, Browning, J, Buonomano, D, Carmel, D, Carrasco, M, Carruthers, P, Carter, O, Chang, D H F, Charest, I, Cherkaoui, M, Cleeremans, A, Cohen, M A, Corlett, P R, Christoff, K, Cumming, S, Cushing, C A, de Gelder, B, Brigard, F D, Dennett, D C, Dijkstra, N, Doerig, A, Dux, P E, Fleming, S M, Frankish, K, Frith, C D, Garfinkel, S, Goodale, M A, Gottlieb, J, Hanson, J R, Hassin, R R, Herzog, M H, Heyes, C, Hsieh, P-J, Hung, S-M, Kentridge, R, Knapen, T, Konstantinou, N, Kording, K, Kvamme, T L, Kwok, S C, Lanfranco, R C, Lau, H, LeDoux, J, Lee, A L F, Libedinsky, C, Lieberman, M D, Lin, Y-T, Liu, K-Y, Machizawa, M G, Martinez-Trujillo, J, Metcalfe, J, Michel, M, Miller, K D, Mitra, P P, Mobbs, D, Mok, R M, Morales, J, Mylopoulos, M, Odegaard, B, Or, C C-F, Owen, A M, Pereplyotchik, D, Pestilli, F, Peters, M A K, Phillips, I, Rademaker, R L, Rahnev, D, Rees, G, Ringach, D L, Roskies, A, Schiller, D, Schurger, A, Schwarzkopf, D S, Scott, R B, Seitz, A R, Shepherd, J, Silvanto, J, Slagter, H A, Smith, B C, Solovey, G, Soto, D, Spiers, H, Stein, T, Taschereau-Dumouchel, V, Tong, F, Tse, P U, Vibell, J, Watzl, S, Webb, T, Weisberg, J, Wheatley, T, Wierzchoń, M, Wokke, M E & Yan, K 2025, 'What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?', Nature Neuroscience, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 689-693. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01881-x
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