Consciousness — the first-personal awareness of one’s self and the world — is a mysterious phenomenon. In order to make progress towards a scientific understanding of it, it is critical that we determine which theories are testable, and which are not. This letter in Nature Neuroscience argues that Integrated Information Theory, a leading theory of consciousness, is not testable.
Joshua Shepherd
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Reference/s:
IIT-Concerned., Klincewicz, M., Cheng, T. et al. 2025, ‘What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?’, Nature neuroscience, 28 – 4 – 689 – 693.
