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Consciousness: why a leading theory has been branded 'pseudoscience'

By Philip Goff, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Durham University

Civil war has broken out in the field of consciousness research. More than 100 consciousness researchers have signed a letter accusing one of the most popular scientific theories of consciousness – the integrated information theory – of being pseudoscience.

Immediately, several other figures in the field responded by critiquing the letter as poorly…

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