I can’t be sure that they aren’t somewhere as “philosophy of consciousness”, let alone cognitive science is a surprisingly big field, and this is not what I specialised in directly. But I have never seen it proprosed in a paper (though I haven’t deliberately searched.)
Oh, this is a very interesting data point, I didn’t know neuron counts weren’t even proposed as a serious option in the literature.
I can’t be sure that they aren’t somewhere as “philosophy of consciousness”, let alone cognitive science is a surprisingly big field, and this is not what I specialised in directly. But I have never seen it proprosed in a paper (though I haven’t deliberately searched.)
I had a bit of a scan and I couldn’t find it outside the EA sphere