The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness as Pseudoscience
Stephen M Fleming, Chris Frith, Mel Goodale, Hakwan Lau, Joseph E LeDoux, Alan L. F. Lee, Matthias Michel, Adrian M. Owen, Megan A. K. Peters, Heleen A. Slagter
PsyArXiv September 16, 2023 preprint DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/zsr78 (opens in new tab)
Abstract
The media, including news articles in both Nature and Science, have recently celebrated the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) as a ‘leading’ and empirically tested theory of consciousness. We are writing as researchers with some relevant expertise to express our concerns.
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