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There are about 50 diverse theories behind consciousness and one of the two currently oft-accepted theories, known as the integrated information theory (IIT), was recently declared by a group of 124 scholars, including Bernard Baars, Daniel Dennett, and Joseph LeDoux, to be a pseudoscience with a panpsychic slant that is having damaging effects on biology (Fleming et al, 2023; Lenharo, 2023). This accusation caused a considerable uproar and prompted other experts on consciousness, including Christoph Koch and Anil Seth, to defend the IIT concept (Lenharo, 2023). IIT proposes a mathematical model to explain why some systems, such as brains, are conscious. Generally, it assumes that the model could infer from objective and causal properties whether a given system is conscious, to what degree and what particular experience it is having. We have discussed IIT elsewhere (Reber, 2019; Reber et al, 2023 …