P10 · CASE 0003 · POPULATED EVIDENCE RECORD

What Is Consciousness?

OPENCOMPLETE_CLAIMS_SOURCES_ADVERSARIAL

Consciousness is provisionally defined as the presence of subjective experience. Current neuroscience maps reproducible conditions and useful markers, but no single accepted mechanism fully explains why or how experience exists.

20sources

15claims

10framework dimensions

15adversarial tests

Canonical source basis:
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Claims

Claims retain their original research-state labels. A status is not a probability of truth.

ID	State	Claim	Support refs
C01	PROVISIONAL SUPPORT	Consciousness is best operationally centered on subjective experience rather than wakefulness or behavior alone.	S07–S10; S14; S17–S19
C02	STRONG SUPPORT	Wakefulness, responsiveness and consciousness can dissociate.	S08–S10; S14; S17; S19
C03	STRONG SUPPORT	Some behaviorally unresponsive patients demonstrate covert command following.	S08–S10
C04	PROVISIONAL SUPPORT	Conscious capacity is associated with differentiated and integrated neural dynamics.	S07; S15–S17; S20
C05	STRONG SUPPORT	Arousal systems enable consciousness but do not by themselves specify content.	S11–S13; S19
C06	PROVISIONAL SUPPORT	No-report paradigms reduce but do not eliminate report-related confounds.	S01; S02; S03; S18
C07	STRONG SUPPORT	Dreaming demonstrates experience during reduced environmental responsiveness.	S14; S17
C08	STRONG SUPPORT	Perturbational complexity can support inferences about conscious capacity without behavioral report.	S07
C09	STRONG SUPPORT	Current neural markers are indirect evidence rather than direct measurements of experience.	S01–S20
C10	STRONG SUPPORT	IIT and GNWT remain empirically underdetermined after direct adversarial testing.	S01–S06
C11	PROVISIONAL SUPPORT	Frontal activity may include report, metacognition and control processes in addition to experience.	S01; S05; S06; S18
C12	PROVISIONAL SUPPORT	Posterior cortical activity is strongly associated with perceptual and dream content, but is not established as the complete substrate.	S01; S14; S18
C13	PROVISIONAL SUPPORT	Thalamocortical interactions contribute causally to conscious perception and state transitions.	S11–S13; S19
C14	STRONG SUPPORT	Clinical consciousness assessment should be repeated and multimodal when consequences are high.	S08–S10
C15	OPEN	No current theory explains why physical processes are accompanied by subjective experience.	S01–S20

Sources · 20 serialized

ID	Source	Research status
S01	Cogitate Consortium — GNWT vs IIT	ACCEPTED EVIDENCE
S02	Cogitate — Intracranial EEG dataset	ACCEPTED DATA
S03	Cogitate — Multi-site fMRI dataset	ACCEPTED DATA
S04	Albantakis et al. — IIT 4.0	ACCEPTED THEORY
S05	Mashour et al. — Global Neuronal Workspace	ACCEPTED THEORY
S06	Shea and Frith — Global Workspace Needs Metacognition	ACCEPTED THEORY
S07	Casali et al. — Perturbational Complexity Index	ACCEPTED EVIDENCE
S08	Bodien et al. — Cognitive Motor Dissociation	ACCEPTED CLINICAL
S09	Claassen et al. — EEG command following	ACCEPTED CLINICAL
S10	Monti et al. — Willful fMRI modulation	ACCEPTED CLINICAL
S11	Fang et al. — High-order thalamic nuclei	ACCEPTED EVIDENCE
S12	Jang et al. — Focused ultrasound thalamic modulation	ACCEPTED EXPERIMENTAL
S13	Huang et al. — Propofol and thalamic core–matrix architecture	ACCEPTED EVIDENCE
S14	Siclari et al. — Neural correlates of dreaming	ACCEPTED EVIDENCE
S15	Luppi et al. — Consciousness-specific dynamic interactions	ACCEPTED EVIDENCE
S16	Luppi et al. — Anesthesia decreases brain uniqueness	ACCEPTED EVIDENCE
S17	Lee et al. — Quantifying arousal and awareness	ACCEPTED EVIDENCE
S18	Human visual consciousness without overt report	ACCEPTED EVIDENCE
S19	Edlow et al. — Brainstem connections sustaining wakefulness	ACCEPTED EVIDENCE
S20	Jang et al. — Integration and differentiation under propofol	ACCEPTED EVIDENCE

Tests / adversarial controls · 15

ID	Failure mode / test	State	Required control
A01	Wakefulness substitution	ACTIVE	Separate arousal from awareness/content.
A02	Responsiveness substitution	ACTIVE	Use multimodal and repeated assessment.
A03	Report absolutism	ACTIVE	Include covert cognition and no-report evidence.
A04	Marker absolutism	ACTIVE	Record validation and limits.
A05	Theory laundering	ACTIVE	Require preregistered discriminating predictions.
A06	Correlation–causation collapse	ACTIVE	Demand intervention or lesion evidence.
A07	State–content confusion	ACTIVE	Separate state and content evidence.
A08	Retrospective memory bias	ACTIVE	Model report timing and forgetting.
A09	Frontal/posterior absolutism	ACTIVE	Use cross-state and causal network evidence.
A10	Human-default transfer	ACTIVE	Validate population-specific inference.
A11	Complexity mystification	ACTIVE	Separate capacity, content and metric interpretation.
A12	Access–phenomenology collapse	ACTIVE	Use no-report and overflow tests cautiously.
A13	Clinical certainty inflation	ACTIVE	Repeat, corroborate and document uncertainty.
A14	Species anthropomorphism	ACTIVE	Separate evidence from analogy.
A15	Metaphysical smuggling	ACTIVE	State metaphysical assumptions separately.

Serialization boundary

This interface does not complete missing research by inference. The current record is COMPLETE_CLAIMS_SOURCES_ADVERSARIAL. Missing source-level or bilingual object-level fields remain absent until they are read from a canonical Observatory artifact.