The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness as Pseudoscience
IIT-Concerned, Stephen M. Fleming, Chris Frith, Melvyn A. Goodale, Hakwan Lau, Joseph E. LeDoux, Alan Lee, Matthias Michel, Adrian M. Owen, Megan A. K. Peters, Heleen A. Slagter
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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PseudoscienceConsciousnessIntegrated information theoryEpistemologyPsychologyCognitive scienceSociologyEngineering ethicsManagement sciencePhilosophyEngineeringPathologyAlternative medicineMedicineCognitive Science and Education Research