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Nobody knows how consciousness works – but top researchers are fighting over which theories are really science
Tim Baynetheconversation.com
Why consciousness science needs formal mathematical theories and how integrated information theory gained credibility through testable predictions
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So what I mean by that is that Darwinian evolution, for example, still gets a lot of debate. And I think it's because, well, one reason for that is that it's not as formalized as E equals mc2. I think there's just less debate about that once you write this down and you show it works.
And so that got me thinking a lot about how the goal of
... See moreOne problem is that consciousness means different things to different people. For example, some researchers focus on the subjective experience — what it is like to be you or me. Others study its function — cognitive processes and behaviours enabled by being conscious. These differences muddy attempts to compare ideas.
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