What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?

IIT-Concerned; Michał Klincewicz; Tony Cheng; Michael Schmitz; Miguel Ángel Sebastián; Joel S Snyder

doi:10.1038/s41593-025-01881-x

What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?

Nat Neurosci. 2025 Apr;28(4):689-693. doi: 10.1038/s41593-025-01881-x.

Authors

IIT-Concerned; Michał Klincewicz^{1

2}, Tony Cheng³, Michael Schmitz⁴, Miguel Ángel Sebastián⁵, Joel S Snyder⁶

Collaborators

IIT-Concerned:
Derek H Arnold, Mark G Baxter, Tristan A Bekinschtein, 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-Trujillo, 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 Schwarzkopf, 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 Taschereau-Dumouchel, Frank Tong, Peter U Tse, Jonas Vibell, Sebastian Watzl, Taylor Webb, Josh Weisberg, Thalia Wheatley, Michał Wierzchoń, Martijn E Wokke, Karen Yan

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands. m.w.klincewicz@tilburguniversity.edu.
² Institute of Cognitive Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. m.w.klincewicz@tilburguniversity.edu.
³ Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. h.cheng.12@ucl.ac.uk.
⁴ Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria. Michael.Schmitz@univie.ac.at.
⁵ National Autonomous University of México, México City, México. msebastian@gmail.com.
⁶ Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA. joel.snyder@unlv.edu.

PMID: 40065187
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01881-x

No abstract available