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And as Block noted in his remarks that night, the finding that there was support for the back-of-the-brain theories does not specifically support IIT...
These results confirm some predictions of IIT and GNWT, while substantially challenging both theories, they wrote in a paper describing the results posted on the biorxiv.org preprint server...
My claim is that consciousness became decoupled from the stimulus, he said.. Boly and Dehaene now await the results of the second experiment, involving the Tetris-like game distraction..
We will find out as we go along in exactly this type of adversarial collaboration, he said.. Others, like the computational neuroscientist Megan Peters of the University of California, Irvine, bristled at media coverage that reported the results as a two-horse race between GNWT and IIT, rather than a field with multiple contenders..
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