What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?

IIT Concerned, Michal Klincewicz, Tony Cheng, Michael Schmitz, Miguel Angel Sebastian, Joel S. Snyder

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)689–693
Number of pages5
JournalNature Neuroscience
Volume28
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2025
Externally publishedYes

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