The Consciousness Clash: Paradigms, Pseudoscience and Spacememory

The International Space Federation (ISF) article https://spacefed.com/biology/the-consciousness-clash/ explores a major scientific debate concerning the nature of consciousness, primarily highlighting the conflict between Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) and Integrated Information Theory (IIT). GNWT views consciousness as an emergent property of complex brain computations, while IIT proposes it as a fundamental quality of reality based on integrated information. The article discusses the controversy surrounding IIT's accusation of being "pseudoscience" by over 100 scientists, drawing parallels to historical scientific rejections of groundbreaking theories. Ultimately, the ISF introduces its own unified physics model, suggesting consciousness is intrinsic to a "spacememory network" at the quantum level, offering an alternative framework that transcends both GNWT and IIT. This model posits the brain as a receiver rather than a generator of consciousness, connecting to a universal information network within spacetime.
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