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Integrated Information Theory: Pseudoscience or appropriately anomalous science?

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The integrated information theory of consciousness (IIT) has recently been branded pseudoscience. Its methodology is certainly anomalous, but does that make it pseudoscience or an appropriately anomalous science of an anomalous phenomenon? This article considers the question and argues that the accusation of pseudoscience has merit. At best, IIT is a metaphysical theory mispresented as science.

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Title: Integrated Information Theory: Pseudoscience or appropriately anomalous science?

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The integrated information theory of consciousness (IIT) has recently been branded pseudoscience.

Its methodology is certainly anomalous, but does that make it pseudoscience or an appropriately anomalous science of an anomalous phenomenon? This article considers the question and argues that the accusation of pseudoscience has merit.

At best, IIT is a metaphysical theory mispresented as science.

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