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ArticleNeuroscience of consciousness2020

The science of consciousness does not need another theory, it needs a minimal unifying model.

Wanja Wiese

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Article in Neuroscience of consciousness, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The evolutionary functions of consciousness.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  7. Cerebral Organoid Research Ethics and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey.Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · 2023
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  9. Theories of consciousness.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2022
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  12. Functions of consciousness: conceptual clarification.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Wanja WieseDepartment of Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg University, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18, 55128 Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3338-7398

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article discusses a hypothesis recently put forward by Kanai

Indexed as

consciousnessfree-energy principleinformation generationminimal unifying modelpredictive processingtheories and models

Identifiers

PMID32676200
PMCPMC7352491

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