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  • Consciousness theory slammed as ‘pseudoscience’ — sparking uproar

    09/21/2023 7:40:33 PM PDT · by FarCenter · 23 replies
    A letter, signed by 124 scholars and posted online last week1, has caused an uproar in the consciousness research community. It claims that a prominent theory describing what makes someone or something conscious — called the integrated information theory (IIT) — should be labelled “pseudoscience”. Since its publication on 15 September in the preprint repository PsyArXiv, the letter has some researchers arguing over the label and others worried it will increase polarization in a field that has grappled with issues of credibility in the past. “I think it’s inflammatory to describe IIT as pseudoscience,” says neuroscientist Anil Seth, director of...
  • How Are The Mind & The Brain Different? A Neuroscientist Explains

    09/21/2023 3:52:12 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 71 replies
    mindbodygreen.com ^ | March 8, 2021 | Caroline Leaf, Communication Pathologist and Neuroscientist
    For many people, the mind and brain are interchangeable. They use one word or the other to talk about the same thing: the organ in our skull that we use to think. However, the mind and brain are actually two very different, but interconnected, entities. As a neuroscientist, this reality is the foundation of my life's research and work: The mind works through the brain but is separate from the brain. What is the difference between the mind and the brain? So what exactly is the difference between the mind and the brain? Well, the mind is separate, yet inseparable...