From Peter White, Cardiff, UK
Robert Kuhn deserves praise for compiling a comprehensive catalogue of theories of consciousness. There is a problem, however. Science progresses by proposals of hypotheses that generate testable predictions. If the predictions generated by a hypothesis are disconfirmed, then that hypothesis is discarded and we can move on to better ones(25 October, p 36).
Theories of consciousness, however, don’t seem to generate testable predictions. If there are 350 theories, at least 349 of them must be wrong. But it isn’t clear what sort of evidence would show any of them to be wrong, so no progress is possible.
