Jack, Anthony I.: Productive consensus on measuring awareness requires stronger theory. Commentary on Stockart et al, 2025

_Behavioral and Brain Sciences_. forthcomingStockart et al. make a well-intentioned attempt to build consensus over the measurement of awareness, a topic of controversy for 40 years. But their recurring slippage between subjective and objective measures overlooks a neural tension between fundamentally distinct modes of understanding. Opposing Domains Theory explains why: disagreements persist, “triple tasks” can backfire, and “cross-validation” needs to be reconceptualized.