# Neural correlates of consciousness

- kind: problem
- status: open
- year: 1990

**Statement.** Which brain activity is minimally sufficient for a conscious experience?

Integrated information theory and global workspace theory make conflicting predictions. A pre-registered adversarial collaboration published in 2023 and 2025 found results that challenged both. Adversarial collaboration of this kind is a useful template for problems without a clean verifier.

## Sources

- [Wikipedia: Neural correlates of consciousness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_correlates_of_consciousness)

[Consciousness](/wiki/Space:consciousness.md) · [Mind](/wiki/Continent:mind.md)

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