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ReviewFrontiers in psychology2022

What if consciousness is not an emergent property of the brain? Observational and empirical challenges to materialistic models.

Helané Wahbeh, Dean Radin, Cedric Cannard, Arnaud Delorme

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Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Evidence of quantum-entangled higher states of consciousness.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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  8. Mathematical proof of the Fisher-EscolàComputational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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  9. Vitalism and Naturopathy in Psychedelic Medicine.Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.) · 2024
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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

4 authors.

Helané WahbehResearch Department, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, CA, United States.
Dean RadinResearch Department, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, CA, United States.
Cedric CannardResearch Department, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, CA, United States.
Arnaud DelormeResearch Department, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, CA, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nature of consciousness is considered one of science's most perplexing and persistent mysteries. We all know the subjective experience of consciousness, but where does it arise? What is its purpose? What are its full capacities? The assumption within today's neuroscience is that all aspects of consciousness arise solely from interactions among neurons in the brain. However, the origin and mechanisms of

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analytic idealismglobal work-space theorieshigher-order theoriesintegrated information theoryinterface theory of perceptionnon-local consciousnessorch-ORre-entry and predictive processing

Identifiers

PMID36160593
PMCPMC9490228

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