Two rival theories about the basis of perception went head-to-head in a series of neuroscience experiments, but advocates of the 'losing' idea aren't conceding yet.
about consciousness, and the calling in of a 25-year-old drunken bet, camps backing two leading theories of how consciousness arises from the brain waited anxiously in a Greenwich village theater on Friday to hear who had won the first round of an ambitious “adversarial collaboration.
The unusual evening event, part of the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness , also served as the denouement of a wager placed in 1998 at the second such conference. There, cognitive neuroscientist Christof Koch bet philosopher David Chalmers that the neural correlates of consciousness would be nailed down in 25 years.
Consciousness has compelled philosophers since Plato, but over the last three decades, neuroscientists have entered the fray. Both disciplines seek a working theory of consciousness as the first step towards measuring the phenomenon–whether to make life and death decisions about brain-damaged patients, ascribe rights to animals or determine whether AI may have it.
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