Nobody knows how consciousness works – but top researchers are fighting over which theories are really science
- Written by: Tim Bayne, Professor of Philosophy, Monash University
ShutterstockScience is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a scarcity of experimental data.
So in June, when the results of a head-to-head experimental contest between two rival theories were announced at the 26th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of...