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What is a Pseudoscience of Consciousness? Lessons from Recent Adversarial Collaborations
Abstract: Some colleagues have questioned about our recent joint statement (Fleming et al 2023), so I try to address them here, as well as to provide some background. I also discuss what I think really went wrong with the recent adversarial collaboration on testing theories of consciousness (ARC-Cogitate), which has in part led to the statement. In a previous open review I already discussed the scientific content of their recent preprint. Here I focus on the institutional context, from my own personal perspective, as so…
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“…Here, instead of focusing on the theory, I highlight a deeper philosophical divide within the science of consciousness. *** For an outsider following the recent debates [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] , one amusing fact may be that those who defend IIT against the charge of pseudoscience are actually often willing to describe the theory in terms that may sound just as harsh, if not more so. Anil Seth, for example, openly calls IIT "bonkers".…”
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“…Here, instead of focusing on the theory, I highlight a deeper philosophical divide within the science of consciousness. *** For an outsider following the recent debates [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] , one amusing fact may be that those who defend IIT against the charge of pseudoscience are actually often willing to describe the theory in terms that may sound just as harsh, if not more so. Anil Seth, for example, openly calls IIT "bonkers".…”
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“…However, as we see in recent events, this remarkable trend of growing Bonkerism in philosophy has already begun to directly influence how science is conducted in practice 5 . And this is a real problem 6 . The level of Bonkerism has just gotten way too strong.…”
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confidence: 99%
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