The Pseudoscience Letter

Key References: Fleming et al. 'The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness as Pseudoscience' 2023

Key References: Alan Watts 'This is It' 1958

Key References:   Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rimpoche 'Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness' 1986   Arthur Schopenhauer from 'The Essential Schopenhauer' 2010

Key References:   Elizabeth Finkel ‘Adversarial Search for Neural Basis of Consciousness Yields First Results’, 2023   Lucia Melloni et al. (preprint) ‘An Adversarial Collaboration to Critically Evaluate Theories of Consciousness’, 2023  

Key References: Sebastian Junger 'Tribe' 2016

Key References: Omri Raccah, Ned Block, and Kieran Fox 'Does the Prefrontal Cortex Play an Essential Role in Consciousness? Insights from Intracranial Electrical Stimulation of the Human Brain?' 2021

Key References: Zoran Josipovic 'Implicit–explicit gradient of nondual awareness or consciousness as such' 2021

Key References:   Christoph Durt, Tom Froese, and Thomas Fuchs 'Against AI Understanding and Sentience: Large Language Models, Meaning, and the Patterns of Human Language Use' 2023

Key References: Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold 'When Brains Dream' 2021 Obada Al Zoubi et al. 'Taking the body off the mind: Decreased functional connectivity between somatomotor and default‐mode networks following Floatation‐REST' 2021

Key References: Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold 'When Brains Dream' 2021 Hanna Hayat et al. 'Locus coeruleus norepinephrine activity mediates sensory-evoked awakenings from sleep' 2020