# On IIT and adversarial testing of consciousness theories - with Christof Koch - #32

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Podcast: [Theoretical Neuroscience Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/theoretical-neuroscience-podcast-6657149)
Published: 2025-09-13T06:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In an adversarial collaboration researchers with opposing theories jointly investigate a disputed topic by designing and implementing a study in a mutually agreed unbiased way. Results from adversarial testing of two well-known theories for consciousness, Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) and Integrated Information Theory (IIT), were presented earlier this year. In this podcast one of the proponents and developers of IIT describes this candidate theory, and also the design of, and results from, the adversarial study.

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