{"id":197048,"date":"2024-10-04T21:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T02:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-theory-of-consciousness-explains-why-zombies-dont-exist"},"modified":"2024-10-04T21:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T02:25:04","slug":"new-theory-of-consciousness-explains-why-zombies-dont-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-theory-of-consciousness-explains-why-zombies-dont-exist","title":{"rendered":"New Theory of Consciousness Explains Why Zombies Don\u2019t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8kolJoTf-Ew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0f Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here \u27bc <a href=\"https:\/\/NordVPN.com\/sabine\">https:\/\/NordVPN.com\/sabine<\/a> It\u2019s risk-free with Nord\u2019s 30-day money-back guarantee! \u270c<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration of a neurologist, a computer scientist, and a philosopher has just put forward a new theory of consciousness. It is based on the idea of causal models. The authors claim boldly that their idea solves the hard problem of consciousness and explains why zombies don\u2019t exist in nature. Really? I\u2019ve had a look.<\/p>\n<p>Paper: <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/osf\/mtgn7\">https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/osf\/mtgn7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd13 Check out my new quiz app \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/\">http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc8c Support me on Donorbox \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg\">https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\udcdd Transcripts and written news on Substack \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc49 Transcript with links to references on Patreon \u279c \/ sabine.<br \/> \ud83d\udce9 Free weekly science newsletter \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle\">https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udc42 Audio only podcast \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udd17 Join this channel to get access to perks \u279c<br \/> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sabinehossenfelder\">@sabinehossenfelder<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f On instagram \u279c \/ sciencewtg.<\/p>\n<p>#science #sciencenews #consciousness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udf0f Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here \u27bc https:\/\/NordVPN.com\/sabine It\u2019s risk-free with Nord\u2019s 30-day money-back guarantee! \u270c A collaboration of a neurologist, a computer scientist, and a philosopher has just put forward a new theory of consciousness. It is based on the idea of causal models. The authors claim boldly that their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-open-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}