Christof Koch
contemporaryPhilosophy of Mind / Neuroscienceb. 1956
Christof Koch is a German-American neuroscientist known for his pioneering work on the neural correlates of consciousness. A longtime collaborator of Francis Crick, he has been a leading proponent of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and served as Chief Scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.
Notable Achievements
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Co-developed the search for neural correlates of consciousness with Francis Crick
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Leading proponent and developer of Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
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Served as Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program at the Allen Institute for Brain Science
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Authored 'The Quest for Consciousness' and 'Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist'
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Advanced empirical approaches to studying subjective experience