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Theory as adversarial collaboration

Nature Human Behaviour volume 6, pages 485–486 (2022)Cite this article

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Developing theories by designing experiments that are aimed at falsifying them is a core endeavour in empirical sciences. By analysing 365 articles dedicated to the study of consciousness, Yaron et al.’s study1 shows that there is almost no dialogue between the four main theories of this elusive phenomenon and gives us an interactive database with which to probe the literature.

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Cleeremans, A. Theory as adversarial collaboration. Nat Hum Behav 6, 485–486 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01285-4

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