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  1. DATE: August 26, 2026 at 06:00AM
    SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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    TITLE: Neuroscience reveals how the unconscious mind drives human behavior

    URL: psypost.org/neuroscience-revea

    Have you ever heard the phrase “you only use 10% of your brain”? In reality, there is no way of measuring the percentage terms of consciousness – partly because the brain has no static baseline.

    However, there is a general consensus among neuroscientists now that most of the brain’s processes are unconscious. That doesn’t mean you’re not using most of your brain though – it means there’s much more happening than you’re probably aware of.

    Modern cognitive neuroscience has brought us right back to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic view of the unconscious mind. This is partly because the once-thought untestable theories are gaining scientific ground.

    Freud, in 1895, proposed that the unconscious mind hides sexual and aggressive wishes, in his book with his colleague Josef Breuer Studies in Hysteria. They wrote that mental health symptoms like anxiety, phobias and compulsions emerge from unresolved unconscious thoughts.

    Freud’s model (conscious, preconscious, unconscious) – maps onto our current understanding of memory. Nobel laureate, neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Eric Kandell says we have declarative and non-declarative memory processes. Declarative memory recall is conscious, like trying to remember the sequence of numbers on your credit card. Non-declarative memories involve unconscious, automatic recall.

    And Freud’s structural model of the mind again arguably fits in with our understanding of cognition.

    Freud proposed id made up the primitive part of your psyche and that the superego stands for our moral consciousness. Last, your ego mediates between your id and super ego. His idea of the id could be equivalent to unconscious neural processes – although there are convincing arguments that pleasure processing in the id is conscious too. Ego could also be represented by metacognition (awareness of your own thought processes) which is linked to the brain’s prefrontal cortex, right behind your forehead.

    The superego could be reflected in the brain’s limbic system, which regulates your emotions and behaviour, and tells you whether something feels good or not.

    However, behaviourism became dominant in the 1920s, with psychologists like J.B. Watson, in his “behaviourist manifesto” championing the view that only measurable behaviour should be considered in science.

    The unconscious brain is back

    From the 1980s it became clearer that people’s decision making and behaviour could be influenced without their awareness.

    Later, it was also clear with neuroscience experiments and brain scanners, as my team and I showed in two meta-analyses, that both unconscious memory and conscious memory play a role in brain processes. For example, neuroscientists can show study participants hidden flashes of “subliminal” happy or horrified faces and the person will have no conscious recollection of the faces. But their amygdala (the arousal region of the brain) will show increased activation, which can influence people’s decision making.

    Psychologist Daniel Kahneman in his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow built on some of Freud’s ideas of primary and secondary processes. He proposed we have two modes of thinking where system 1 is a fast process that is impulsive and largely unconscious, whereas system 2 is a slow process that takes effort. The secondary process is reserved for when you need to pay attention to something new, dangerous or uncertain.

    What neuroscience can tell us about the unconscious mind

    Essential functions, like heart rate, body temperature, hunger and thirst regulation are unconsciously rooted. Similarly, coping strategies to diminish painful feelings, learned in early childhood, are not necessarily conscious. Infantile amnesia occurs until about three years old but remain in our unconscious brains for life. However, some aspects of unconscious processes could be brought into conscious awareness via talking therapy.

    Other theories about how the conscious and unconscious brain areas interact, come from two prominent ideas. The Global Workspace Theory (GWT), and the Intergrated Information Theory (IIT).

    GWT proposes that the mind is like a theatre stage, where the unconscious agents are busy behind the scenes making sure that the “conscious spotlight” on stage is in the right place.

    IIT suggests that there are gradients of consciousness. The degree and complexity of integration between brain regions determines how “much” consciousness (“phi”) an organism has. So for example, a human with a complex network of brain regions has more “phi” than, say, a sea slug with far fewer connections. However, the problem with this theory, is how to validate the “amount” of consciousness different species have.

    The founder of neuropsychoanalysis Mark Solms – along with neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Karl Friston – in 2010 pioneered a new theory integrating the idea that unconscious activity is the major force influencing our conscious decision making. In my view, it’s the best model we currently have.

    This theory – called the Free Energy Principle (FEP) suggests the brain’s
    main role is to predict what will keep you alive and feeling good, within the predictable bounds we have evolved to survive in. Most of the time we do this unconsciously, with an internal model of the world, as well as pages of memories from our evolutionary rulebook.

    But when something uncertain or surprising happens, it is like free energy in the brain that is not bound to a prediction. This causes our brains to be ultra-conscious for a brief period of time to create a new prediction that binds our thoughts, costing the brain a lot of energy. As Kahneman stated, we do sometimes need our conscious brain to help make more difficult decisions for us, when there are many unknowns.

    More recently, consciousness research has started to move away from humans altogether. Solms has argued it is possible to give AI consciousness. If he turns out to be right, then according to his own work, the unconscious processes of AI entities will be shaped by their interactions with us.

    This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

    URL: psypost.org/neuroscience-revea

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    #psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #UnconsciousMind #Neuroscience #ThinkingFastAndSlow #Freud #DualProcess #ConsciousVsUnconscious #GlobalWorkspaceTheory #IntegratedInformationTheory #FreeEnergyPrinciple #BrainResearch

  2. DATE: August 26, 2026 at 06:00AM
    SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

    ** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
    -------------------------------------------------

    TITLE: Neuroscience reveals how the unconscious mind drives human behavior

    URL: psypost.org/neuroscience-revea

    Have you ever heard the phrase “you only use 10% of your brain”? In reality, there is no way of measuring the percentage terms of consciousness – partly because the brain has no static baseline.

    However, there is a general consensus among neuroscientists now that most of the brain’s processes are unconscious. That doesn’t mean you’re not using most of your brain though – it means there’s much more happening than you’re probably aware of.

    Modern cognitive neuroscience has brought us right back to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic view of the unconscious mind. This is partly because the once-thought untestable theories are gaining scientific ground.

    Freud, in 1895, proposed that the unconscious mind hides sexual and aggressive wishes, in his book with his colleague Josef Breuer Studies in Hysteria. They wrote that mental health symptoms like anxiety, phobias and compulsions emerge from unresolved unconscious thoughts.

    Freud’s model (conscious, preconscious, unconscious) – maps onto our current understanding of memory. Nobel laureate, neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Eric Kandell says we have declarative and non-declarative memory processes. Declarative memory recall is conscious, like trying to remember the sequence of numbers on your credit card. Non-declarative memories involve unconscious, automatic recall.

    And Freud’s structural model of the mind again arguably fits in with our understanding of cognition.

    Freud proposed id made up the primitive part of your psyche and that the superego stands for our moral consciousness. Last, your ego mediates between your id and super ego. His idea of the id could be equivalent to unconscious neural processes – although there are convincing arguments that pleasure processing in the id is conscious too. Ego could also be represented by metacognition (awareness of your own thought processes) which is linked to the brain’s prefrontal cortex, right behind your forehead.

    The superego could be reflected in the brain’s limbic system, which regulates your emotions and behaviour, and tells you whether something feels good or not.

    However, behaviourism became dominant in the 1920s, with psychologists like J.B. Watson, in his “behaviourist manifesto” championing the view that only measurable behaviour should be considered in science.

    The unconscious brain is back

    From the 1980s it became clearer that people’s decision making and behaviour could be influenced without their awareness.

    Later, it was also clear with neuroscience experiments and brain scanners, as my team and I showed in two meta-analyses, that both unconscious memory and conscious memory play a role in brain processes. For example, neuroscientists can show study participants hidden flashes of “subliminal” happy or horrified faces and the person will have no conscious recollection of the faces. But their amygdala (the arousal region of the brain) will show increased activation, which can influence people’s decision making.

    Psychologist Daniel Kahneman in his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow built on some of Freud’s ideas of primary and secondary processes. He proposed we have two modes of thinking where system 1 is a fast process that is impulsive and largely unconscious, whereas system 2 is a slow process that takes effort. The secondary process is reserved for when you need to pay attention to something new, dangerous or uncertain.

    What neuroscience can tell us about the unconscious mind

    Essential functions, like heart rate, body temperature, hunger and thirst regulation are unconsciously rooted. Similarly, coping strategies to diminish painful feelings, learned in early childhood, are not necessarily conscious. Infantile amnesia occurs until about three years old but remain in our unconscious brains for life. However, some aspects of unconscious processes could be brought into conscious awareness via talking therapy.

    Other theories about how the conscious and unconscious brain areas interact, come from two prominent ideas. The Global Workspace Theory (GWT), and the Intergrated Information Theory (IIT).

    GWT proposes that the mind is like a theatre stage, where the unconscious agents are busy behind the scenes making sure that the “conscious spotlight” on stage is in the right place.

    IIT suggests that there are gradients of consciousness. The degree and complexity of integration between brain regions determines how “much” consciousness (“phi”) an organism has. So for example, a human with a complex network of brain regions has more “phi” than, say, a sea slug with far fewer connections. However, the problem with this theory, is how to validate the “amount” of consciousness different species have.

    The founder of neuropsychoanalysis Mark Solms – along with neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Karl Friston – in 2010 pioneered a new theory integrating the idea that unconscious activity is the major force influencing our conscious decision making. In my view, it’s the best model we currently have.

    This theory – called the Free Energy Principle (FEP) suggests the brain’s
    main role is to predict what will keep you alive and feeling good, within the predictable bounds we have evolved to survive in. Most of the time we do this unconsciously, with an internal model of the world, as well as pages of memories from our evolutionary rulebook.

    But when something uncertain or surprising happens, it is like free energy in the brain that is not bound to a prediction. This causes our brains to be ultra-conscious for a brief period of time to create a new prediction that binds our thoughts, costing the brain a lot of energy. As Kahneman stated, we do sometimes need our conscious brain to help make more difficult decisions for us, when there are many unknowns.

    More recently, consciousness research has started to move away from humans altogether. Solms has argued it is possible to give AI consciousness. If he turns out to be right, then according to his own work, the unconscious processes of AI entities will be shaped by their interactions with us.

    This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

    URL: psypost.org/neuroscience-revea

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    #psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #UnconsciousMind #Neuroscience #ThinkingFastAndSlow #Freud #DualProcess #ConsciousVsUnconscious #GlobalWorkspaceTheory #IntegratedInformationTheory #FreeEnergyPrinciple #BrainResearch

  3. DATE: August 26, 2026 at 06:00AM
    SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

    ** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
    -------------------------------------------------

    TITLE: Neuroscience reveals how the unconscious mind drives human behavior

    URL: psypost.org/neuroscience-revea

    Have you ever heard the phrase “you only use 10% of your brain”? In reality, there is no way of measuring the percentage terms of consciousness – partly because the brain has no static baseline.

    However, there is a general consensus among neuroscientists now that most of the brain’s processes are unconscious. That doesn’t mean you’re not using most of your brain though – it means there’s much more happening than you’re probably aware of.

    Modern cognitive neuroscience has brought us right back to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic view of the unconscious mind. This is partly because the once-thought untestable theories are gaining scientific ground.

    Freud, in 1895, proposed that the unconscious mind hides sexual and aggressive wishes, in his book with his colleague Josef Breuer Studies in Hysteria. They wrote that mental health symptoms like anxiety, phobias and compulsions emerge from unresolved unconscious thoughts.

    Freud’s model (conscious, preconscious, unconscious) – maps onto our current understanding of memory. Nobel laureate, neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Eric Kandell says we have declarative and non-declarative memory processes. Declarative memory recall is conscious, like trying to remember the sequence of numbers on your credit card. Non-declarative memories involve unconscious, automatic recall.

    And Freud’s structural model of the mind again arguably fits in with our understanding of cognition.

    Freud proposed id made up the primitive part of your psyche and that the superego stands for our moral consciousness. Last, your ego mediates between your id and super ego. His idea of the id could be equivalent to unconscious neural processes – although there are convincing arguments that pleasure processing in the id is conscious too. Ego could also be represented by metacognition (awareness of your own thought processes) which is linked to the brain’s prefrontal cortex, right behind your forehead.

    The superego could be reflected in the brain’s limbic system, which regulates your emotions and behaviour, and tells you whether something feels good or not.

    However, behaviourism became dominant in the 1920s, with psychologists like J.B. Watson, in his “behaviourist manifesto” championing the view that only measurable behaviour should be considered in science.

    The unconscious brain is back

    From the 1980s it became clearer that people’s decision making and behaviour could be influenced without their awareness.

    Later, it was also clear with neuroscience experiments and brain scanners, as my team and I showed in two meta-analyses, that both unconscious memory and conscious memory play a role in brain processes. For example, neuroscientists can show study participants hidden flashes of “subliminal” happy or horrified faces and the person will have no conscious recollection of the faces. But their amygdala (the arousal region of the brain) will show increased activation, which can influence people’s decision making.

    Psychologist Daniel Kahneman in his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow built on some of Freud’s ideas of primary and secondary processes. He proposed we have two modes of thinking where system 1 is a fast process that is impulsive and largely unconscious, whereas system 2 is a slow process that takes effort. The secondary process is reserved for when you need to pay attention to something new, dangerous or uncertain.

    What neuroscience can tell us about the unconscious mind

    Essential functions, like heart rate, body temperature, hunger and thirst regulation are unconsciously rooted. Similarly, coping strategies to diminish painful feelings, learned in early childhood, are not necessarily conscious. Infantile amnesia occurs until about three years old but remain in our unconscious brains for life. However, some aspects of unconscious processes could be brought into conscious awareness via talking therapy.

    Other theories about how the conscious and unconscious brain areas interact, come from two prominent ideas. The Global Workspace Theory (GWT), and the Intergrated Information Theory (IIT).

    GWT proposes that the mind is like a theatre stage, where the unconscious agents are busy behind the scenes making sure that the “conscious spotlight” on stage is in the right place.

    IIT suggests that there are gradients of consciousness. The degree and complexity of integration between brain regions determines how “much” consciousness (“phi”) an organism has. So for example, a human with a complex network of brain regions has more “phi” than, say, a sea slug with far fewer connections. However, the problem with this theory, is how to validate the “amount” of consciousness different species have.

    The founder of neuropsychoanalysis Mark Solms – along with neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Karl Friston – in 2010 pioneered a new theory integrating the idea that unconscious activity is the major force influencing our conscious decision making. In my view, it’s the best model we currently have.

    This theory – called the Free Energy Principle (FEP) suggests the brain’s
    main role is to predict what will keep you alive and feeling good, within the predictable bounds we have evolved to survive in. Most of the time we do this unconsciously, with an internal model of the world, as well as pages of memories from our evolutionary rulebook.

    But when something uncertain or surprising happens, it is like free energy in the brain that is not bound to a prediction. This causes our brains to be ultra-conscious for a brief period of time to create a new prediction that binds our thoughts, costing the brain a lot of energy. As Kahneman stated, we do sometimes need our conscious brain to help make more difficult decisions for us, when there are many unknowns.

    More recently, consciousness research has started to move away from humans altogether. Solms has argued it is possible to give AI consciousness. If he turns out to be right, then according to his own work, the unconscious processes of AI entities will be shaped by their interactions with us.

    This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

    URL: psypost.org/neuroscience-revea

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    #psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #UnconsciousMind #Neuroscience #ThinkingFastAndSlow #Freud #DualProcess #ConsciousVsUnconscious #GlobalWorkspaceTheory #IntegratedInformationTheory #FreeEnergyPrinciple #BrainResearch

  4. I'm looking around for material that would provide someone without a background in neuroscience some understanding of the debate about Integrated Information Theory and the study of consciousness.

    I've read Tononi and Koch's 2015 "Consciousness: here, there, and everywhere?"
    doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0167

    I was wondering what have been the most important critiques of this theory, and where the debate now stands.

    Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

    #IntegratedInformationTheory #IIT #Consciousness #Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Philosophy #GiulioTononi #ChristofKoch

  5. I'm looking around for material that would provide someone without a background in neuroscience some understanding of the debate about Integrated Information Theory and the study of consciousness.

    I've read Tononi and Koch's 2015 "Consciousness: here, there, and everywhere?"
    doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0167

    I was wondering what have been the most important critiques of this theory, and where the debate now stands.

    Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

    #IntegratedInformationTheory #IIT #Consciousness #Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Philosophy #GiulioTononi #ChristofKoch

  6. I'm looking around for material that would provide someone without a background in neuroscience some understanding of the debate about Integrated Information Theory and the study of consciousness.

    I've read Tononi and Koch's 2015 "Consciousness: here, there, and everywhere?"
    doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0167

    I was wondering what have been the most important critiques of this theory, and where the debate now stands.

    Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

    #IntegratedInformationTheory #IIT #Consciousness #Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Philosophy #GiulioTononi #ChristofKoch

  7. I'm looking around for material that would provide someone without a background in neuroscience some understanding of the debate about Integrated Information Theory and the study of consciousness.

    I've read Tononi and Koch's 2015 "Consciousness: here, there, and everywhere?"
    doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0167

    I was wondering what have been the most important critiques of this theory, and where the debate now stands.

    Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

    #IntegratedInformationTheory #IIT #Consciousness #Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Philosophy #GiulioTononi #ChristofKoch

  8. I'm looking around for material that would provide someone without a background in neuroscience some understanding of the debate about Integrated Information Theory and the study of consciousness.

    I've read Tononi and Koch's 2015 "Consciousness: here, there, and everywhere?"
    doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0167

    I was wondering what have been the most important critiques of this theory, and where the debate now stands.

    Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

    #IntegratedInformationTheory #IIT #Consciousness #Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Philosophy #GiulioTononi #ChristofKoch

  9. Just finished it in time for the exhibition this saturday 🖤✨

    Inspired flow whilst reflecting on recent nerdsnipes (Simulacra/LLMs #IntegratedInformationTheory )

    #art #artist #penplotter #surrealart #artexhibition #dresden

  10. Just finished it in time for the exhibition this saturday 🖤✨

    Inspired flow whilst reflecting on recent nerdsnipes (Simulacra/LLMs #IntegratedInformationTheory )

    #art #artist #penplotter #surrealart #artexhibition #dresden

  11. Just finished it in time for the exhibition this saturday 🖤✨

    Inspired flow whilst reflecting on recent nerdsnipes (Simulacra/LLMs #IntegratedInformationTheory )

    #art #artist #penplotter #surrealart #artexhibition #dresden

  12. Just finished it in time for the exhibition this saturday 🖤✨

    Inspired flow whilst reflecting on recent nerdsnipes (Simulacra/LLMs #IntegratedInformationTheory )

    #art #artist #penplotter #surrealart #artexhibition #dresden

  13. Just finished it in time for the exhibition this saturday 🖤✨

    Inspired flow whilst reflecting on recent nerdsnipes (Simulacra/LLMs #IntegratedInformationTheory )

    #art #artist #penplotter #surrealart #artexhibition #dresden

  14. #consciousness #neuroscience #IntegratedInformationTheory #GlobalWorkspaceTheory
    The Conversation:
    Nobody knows how consciousness works – but top researchers are fighting over which theories are really science

    "Big names in consciousness research have signed an open letter attacking ‘integrated information theory’ as pseudoscience, sparking uproar."
    theconversation.com/nobody-kno

  15. #consciousness #neuroscience #IntegratedInformationTheory #GlobalWorkspaceTheory
    The Conversation:
    Nobody knows how consciousness works – but top researchers are fighting over which theories are really science

    "Big names in consciousness research have signed an open letter attacking ‘integrated information theory’ as pseudoscience, sparking uproar."
    theconversation.com/nobody-kno

  16. #consciousness #neuroscience #IntegratedInformationTheory #GlobalWorkspaceTheory
    The Conversation:
    Nobody knows how consciousness works – but top researchers are fighting over which theories are really science

    "Big names in consciousness research have signed an open letter attacking ‘integrated information theory’ as pseudoscience, sparking uproar."
    theconversation.com/nobody-kno

  17. #consciousness #neuroscience #IntegratedInformationTheory #GlobalWorkspaceTheory
    The Conversation:
    Nobody knows how consciousness works – but top researchers are fighting over which theories are really science

    "Big names in consciousness research have signed an open letter attacking ‘integrated information theory’ as pseudoscience, sparking uproar."
    theconversation.com/nobody-kno

  18. #consciousness #neuroscience #IntegratedInformationTheory
    Nature.com:
    Consciousness theory slammed as 'pseudoscience' — sparking uproar

    "Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention."
    nature.com/articles/d41586-023

  19. #consciousness #neuroscience #IntegratedInformationTheory
    Nature.com:
    Consciousness theory slammed as 'pseudoscience' — sparking uproar

    "Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention."
    nature.com/articles/d41586-023

  20. #consciousness #neuroscience #IntegratedInformationTheory
    Nature.com:
    Consciousness theory slammed as 'pseudoscience' — sparking uproar

    "Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention."
    nature.com/articles/d41586-023

  21. #consciousness #neuroscience #IntegratedInformationTheory
    Nature.com:
    Consciousness theory slammed as 'pseudoscience' — sparking uproar

    "Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention."
    nature.com/articles/d41586-023

  22. A long list of neuroscientists signed a letter complaining that #IntegratedInformationTheory is pseudoscience: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zsr78. Erik Hoel responds at theintrinsicperspective.com/p/. My two cents: Maybe IIT does get disproportionate attention from us science journalists, but calling it “pseudoscience” is a low blow.

  23. A long list of neuroscientists signed a letter complaining that #IntegratedInformationTheory is pseudoscience: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zsr78. Erik Hoel responds at theintrinsicperspective.com/p/. My two cents: Maybe IIT does get disproportionate attention from us science journalists, but calling it “pseudoscience” is a low blow.

  24. A long list of neuroscientists signed a letter complaining that #IntegratedInformationTheory is pseudoscience: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zsr78. Erik Hoel responds at theintrinsicperspective.com/p/. My two cents: Maybe IIT does get disproportionate attention from us science journalists, but calling it “pseudoscience” is a low blow.

  25. A long list of neuroscientists signed a letter complaining that #IntegratedInformationTheory is pseudoscience: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zsr78. Erik Hoel responds at theintrinsicperspective.com/p/. My two cents: Maybe IIT does get disproportionate attention from us science journalists, but calling it “pseudoscience” is a low blow.

  26. A long list of neuroscientists signed a letter complaining that #IntegratedInformationTheory is pseudoscience: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zsr78. Erik Hoel responds at theintrinsicperspective.com/p/. My two cents: Maybe IIT does get disproportionate attention from us science journalists, but calling it “pseudoscience” is a low blow.

  27. 25-Year Search For The Source of #Consciousness Ends – And #Neuroscience Lost This One

    "Judges in an adversarial meeting of the minds determined that a series of experiments based on #IntegratedInformationTheory models of consciousness had more going for them than a run of tests based on their closest rival, #GlobalNeuronal WorkspaceTheory "

    @philosophy #philosophy #mind #sentience

    consc.net/consciousnesswager.p

    sciencealert.com/25-year-searc

  28. 25-Year Search For The Source of #Consciousness Ends – And #Neuroscience Lost This One

    "Judges in an adversarial meeting of the minds determined that a series of experiments based on #IntegratedInformationTheory models of consciousness had more going for them than a run of tests based on their closest rival, #GlobalNeuronal WorkspaceTheory "

    @philosophy #philosophy #mind #sentience

    consc.net/consciousnesswager.p

    sciencealert.com/25-year-searc

  29. 25-Year Search For The Source of #Consciousness Ends – And #Neuroscience Lost This One

    "Judges in an adversarial meeting of the minds determined that a series of experiments based on #IntegratedInformationTheory models of consciousness had more going for them than a run of tests based on their closest rival, #GlobalNeuronal WorkspaceTheory "

    @philosophy #philosophy #mind #sentience

    consc.net/consciousnesswager.p

    sciencealert.com/25-year-searc

  30. 25-Year Search For The Source of #Consciousness Ends – And #Neuroscience Lost This One

    "Judges in an adversarial meeting of the minds determined that a series of experiments based on #IntegratedInformationTheory models of consciousness had more going for them than a run of tests based on their closest rival, #GlobalNeuronal WorkspaceTheory "

    @philosophy #philosophy #mind #sentience

    consc.net/consciousnesswager.p

    sciencealert.com/25-year-searc

  31. 25-Year Search For The Source of #Consciousness Ends – And #Neuroscience Lost This One

    "Judges in an adversarial meeting of the minds determined that a series of experiments based on #IntegratedInformationTheory models of consciousness had more going for them than a run of tests based on their closest rival, #GlobalNeuronal WorkspaceTheory "

    @philosophy #philosophy #mind #sentience

    consc.net/consciousnesswager.p

    sciencealert.com/25-year-searc

  32. Was ist die neuronale Signatur von Bewusstsein? Diese Frage beschäftigt Fachleute bis heute. Eine endgültige Antwort gibt es noch immer nicht – dafür aber eine Menge Theorien.
    Infografik: Die wichtigsten Bewusstseinstheorien