Consciousness Theory Declared "Pseudoscience" by 124 Researchers: IIT's Adversarial Collaboration
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 Published On Oct 7, 2023

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Major scientists and philosophers signed a letter calling integrated information theory of consciousness "pseudoscience" in the wake of the Cogitate adversarial collaboration between IIT and global neuronal workspace theory (GNWT). A 25-year bet about the neural correlates of consciousness is settled between David Chalmers and Christof Koch.

Interview with Christof Koch:    • Christof Koch Interview: Consciousnes...  

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About IIT:
- Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul, by Giulio Tononi: https://amzn.to/447U7GV
- The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed, by Christof Koch: https://amzn.to/3xiJvsd

Precursor to IIT, by Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi:
- A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination: https://amzn.to/4aLBZED

By Erik Hoel:
- The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science, by Erik Hoel: https://amzn.to/3VV5Q9t

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:52 Integrated Information Theory
2:13 Adversarial Collaboration: Cogitate
3:02 GNWT's Predictions
3:20 IIT's Predictions
3:58 Brain Art
4:34 Results
6:02 Pseudoscience letter
6:32 Trivial predictions?
7:38 IIT and Other Theories
8:49 Too Ambitious?

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Pseudoscience letter: https://psyarxiv.com/zsr78/

Cogitate adversarial collaboration preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11...

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