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Episode 52: The IIT controversy with Felipe De Brigard


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We discuss the recent controversy about Integrated Information Theory (IIT), a theory about the neural correlates of consciousness, with Felipe De Brigard, a philosophy and psychology professor at Duke University who signed a letter describing the theory as pseudoscience.

The letter: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/zsr78/

The adversarial collaboration: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0268577
Description of IIT: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011465

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