“What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?”.

Michal Klincewicz et al. (including Tomas Knapen)

Abstract Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal, integrated information theory, has recently been labeled as pseudoscience, which has caused a heated open debate. Here we discuss the case and argue that the theory is unscientific because its core claims are untestable even in principle.