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Philip Goff, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Durham University

UNBELIEVABLE: Consciousness why a leading theory has been branded pseudoscience | History Defined

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Civil war has broken out in the field of consciousness research. More than 100 consciousness researchers have signed a letter accusing one of the most popular scientific theories of consciousness – the integrated information theory – of being pseudoscience.

Immediately, several other figures in the field responded by critiquing the letter as poorly reasoned and disproportionate.

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