Giulio Tononi, Larissa Albantakis, Leonardo Barbosa, Melanie Boly, Chiara Cirelli, Renzo Comolatti, Francesco Ellia, Graham Findlay, Adenauer Girardi Casali, Matteo Grasso, Andrew M. Haun, Jeremiah Hendren, Erik Hoel, Christof Koch, Alexander Maier, William Marshall, Marcello Massimini, William GP Mayner, Masafumi Oizumi, Joanna Szczotka, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Alireza Zaeemzadeh
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Abstract
Integrated information theory (IIT) starts from consciousness, which is subjective, and accounts for its presence and quality in objective, testable terms. Attempts to label as ‘pseudoscientific’ a theory distinguished by decades of conceptual, mathematical, and empirical developments expose a crisis in the dominant computational-functionalist paradigm, which is challenged by IIT’s consciousness-first paradigm.
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