A bit of a barney erupted this week in the field of consciousness research. Apparently, integrated information theory (IIT, proposed by the neuroscientist Giulio Tononi) is a pseudoscience… or it isn’t, if you take the other side. Letters, signed, were written and published, and there was a fuss on social media and in the scientific press.
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