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Elizabeth Finkel

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What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved

By Elizabeth Finkel
August 24, 2023
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A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of consciousness theorists led to a stagy showdown in front of an audience. It crowned no winners — but it can still claim progress.

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Elizabeth Finkel is an award-winning Australian science journalist and author whose work has appeared in Science, The Lancet, Nature Medicine, New Scientist and other publications. She was a co-founder and editor in chief of the popular science magazine COSMOS. Her books include The Genome Generation and Stem Cells: Controversy at the Frontiers of Science.
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