What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?

• DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01881-x
• Publication Date: 2025-03-10T10:05:11Z
• Authors: Derek H. Arnold; Mark G. Baxter; Tristan A. Bekins...; Yoshua Bengio; James W. Bisley; Jacob Browning; Dean Buonomano; David Carmel; Marisa Carrasco; Peter Carruthers; Olivia Carter; Dorita H. F. Chang; Ian Charest; Mouslim Cherkaoui; Axel Cleeremans; Michael A. Cohen; Philip R. Corlett; Kalina Christoff; Sam Cumming; Cody A. Cushing; Beatrice de Gelder; Felipe De Brigard; Daniel C. Dennett; Nadine Dijkstra; Adrien Doerig; Paul E. Dux; Stephen M. Fleming; Keith Frankish; Chris D. Frith; Sarah Garfinkel; Melvyn A. Goodale; Jacqueline Gottlieb; Jake R. Hanson; Ran R. Hassin; Michael H. Herzog; Cecilia Heyes; Po-Jang Hsieh; Shao-Min Hung; Robert Kentridge; Tomas Knapen; Nikos Konstantinou; Konrad Kording; Timo L. Kvamme; Sze Chai Kwok; Renzo C. Lanfranco; Hakwan Lau; Joseph LeDoux; Alan L. F. Lee; Camilo Libedinsky; Matthew D. Lieberman; Ying-Tung Lin; Ka-Yuet Liu; Maro G. Machizawa; Julio Martinez-Tr...; Janet Metcalfe; Matthias Michel; Kenneth D. Miller; Partha P. Mitra; Dean Mobbs; Robert M. Mok; Jorge Morales; Myrto Mylopoulos; Brian Odegaard; Charles C.-F. Or; Adrian M. Owen; David Pereplyotchik; Franco Pestilli; Megan A. K. Peters; Ian Phillips; Rosanne L. Rademaker; Dobromir Rahnev; Geraint Rees; Dario L. Ringach; Adina Roskies; Daniela Schiller; Aaron Schurger; D. Samuel Schwarz...; Ryan B. Scott; Aaron R. Seitz; Joshua Shepherd; Juha Silvanto; Heleen A. Slagter; Barry C. Smith; Guillermo Solovey; David Soto; Hugo Spiers; Timo Stein; Vincent Tascherea...; Frank Tong; Peter U. Tse; Jonas Vibell; Sebastian Watzl; Taylor Webb; Josh Weisberg; Thalia Wheatley; Michał Wierzchoń; Martijn E. Wokke; Karen Yan; Michał Klincewicz; Tony Cheng; Michael Schmitz; Miguel Ángel Seba...; Joel S. Snyder
• Keywords: Neuroscientist; Systems neuroscience