We need to explain subjective experience, but its explanation may not be mechanistic

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Abstract

Models of consciousness need to explain both objective correlates of conscious experience as well as its subjective structure. However, such an explanation would not need to entail a reduction exclusively in terms of physical or neural systems. We briefly sketch a few points of contention with recent work on integrated information theory and some common assumptions made in the neuroscience of consciousness more generally.

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