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Francis Crick was a prominent researcher who sought to establish consciousness as a subject of scientific inquiry {fact:2, fact:6}, notably proposing the claustrum as a neural correlate [1] and utilizing visual perception to study its mechanisms {fact:4, fact:6}.

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Consciousness and Cognitive Sciences journal-psychoanalysis.eu Journal of Psychoanalysis 2 facts

quoteFrancis Crick stated: “No longer need one spend time [enduring] the tedium of philosophers perpetually disagreeing with each other. Consciousness is now largely a scientific problem.”

quoteFrancis Crick stated: “You are nothing but a pack of neurons.”

What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved quantamagazine.org Quanta Magazine 2 facts

referenceFrancis Crick and Christof Koch published the paper 'Towards a Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness' in 1990, which aimed to establish consciousness as a subject of scientific inquiry by focusing on visual perception.

claimFrancis Crick and Christof Koch identified visual perception as a useful tool for studying consciousness because the final link in the visual processing chain—consciousness—can be detached from the rest of the process.

The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org Frontiers 1 fact

referenceFrancis Crick and Christof Koch (2005) were the first to associate the claustrum with consciousness and proposed that the neocortex is represented within the claustrum in a partial and "diluted" manner.

Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 fact

claimScientific and philosophical research into the nature and basis of consciousness experienced a major resurgence in the 1980s and 1990s, involving researchers such as Bernard Baars (1988), Daniel Dennett (1991), Roger Penrose (1989, 1994), Francis Crick (1994), William Lycan (1987, 1996), and David Chalmers (1996).