
Matthias Michel: Is a Science of Consciousness Possible?
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How to Insulate Theories of Consciousness
'It's very easy to insulate theories of consciousness from empirical aion,' he says. 'Because we have these strong intuitions about the privaty consciousness, you can insulate practically any theory through refutation' But there is no extraordinary evidence that unconscious states are more conscious than conscious states like wakefulness or come-to-consciousness. And so in order to defend it, you need extrno extraordinary evidence, or evidence that's not confounds all those other factors as long as they don't conflict with each other.
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