Panpsychism and analytic idealism, Psi experiments and remote viewingDavid Barbera‐Tomás, Camilo Miguel Signorelli, Adrián A. Díaz‐FaesOctober 14, 2026
This article analyzes the ongoing controversy in consciousness science surrounding Integrated Information Theory (IIT) from a sociological perspective. Drawing on Frickel and Gross’s (2005) framework of Scientific/Intellectual Movements (SIMs), the study examines four key social processes that enabled IIT’s emergence and consolidation as a successful SIM: (i) the role of high-status actors rooted in ties to Nobel laureates, (ii) entrepreneurial resource mobilization through an adversarial collaboration program, (iii) sustained micromobilization within a major conference venue, and (iv) the str