posted on 2025-03-11, 10:19authored byMichal Klincewicz, Tony Cheng, Michael Schmitz, Miguel Angel Sebastian, Joel S Snyder, Ryan ScottRyan Scott
<p dir="ltr">Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal — integrated information theory — has recently been labeled as ‘pseudoscience’, which has caused a heated open debate. Here we discuss the case and argue that the theory is indeed unscientific because its core claims are untestable even in principle.</p>