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  • What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?
    Michał Klincewicz, Tony Cheng, Michael Schmitz, Miguel Ángel Sebastián, and Joel S. Snyder
    Nature Neuroscience 28 (4): 1-5. 2025.
    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.