Searching in the wrong place: Might consciousness reside in the brainstem?
The Behavioral and brain sciences March 23, 2022 Marshall Devor, Mary Koukoui, Mark Baron
The conscious brain integrates vast amounts of information, but claiming that consciousness simply emerges from accumulated information fails to explain how first-person experience is implemented by neurons. Empirical observations challenge integrated information theory's (IIT) reliance on thalamo-cortical interactions as the information integrator. Instead, the cortex likely streams processed information to a still-enigmatic consciousness generator, possibly located in the brainstem.