The Hard Problem by Jesse Winters

The Pseudoscience Letter

Key References:

Fleming et al. 'The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness as Pseudoscience' 2023

The Paradox of Interdependence

Key References:

Alan Watts 'This is It' 1958

Self or Not-Self

Key References:

 

Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rimpoche 'Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness' 1986

 

Arthur Schopenhauer from 'The Essential Schopenhauer' 2010

Adversarial Theories

Key References:

 

Elizabeth Finkel ‘Adversarial Search for Neural Basis of Consciousness Yields First Results’, 2023

 

Lucia Melloni et al. (preprint) ‘An Adversarial Collaboration to Critically Evaluate Theories of Consciousness’, 2023

 

On Pursuing What One Wants

Key References:

Sebastian Junger 'Tribe' 2016

Prefrontal Consciousness

Key References:

Omri Raccah, Ned Block, and Kieran Fox 'Does the Prefrontal Cortex Play an Essential Role in Consciousness? Insights from Intracranial Electrical Stimulation of the Human Brain?' 2021

Emergence and Non-Duality

Key References:

Zoran Josipovic 'Implicit–explicit gradient of nondual awareness or consciousness as such' 2021

Reality as Territory

Key References:

 

Christoph Durt, Tom Froese, and Thomas Fuchs 'Against AI Understanding and Sentience: Large Language Models, Meaning, and the Patterns of Human Language Use' 2023

On Dreaming and Daydreaming

Key References:

Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold 'When Brains Dream' 2021

Obada Al Zoubi et al. 'Taking the body off the mind: Decreased functional connectivity between somatomotor and default‐mode networks following Floatation‐REST' 2021

The Lucidity of Conscious States

Key References:

Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold 'When Brains Dream' 2021

Hanna Hayat et al. 'Locus coeruleus norepinephrine activity mediates sensory-evoked awakenings from sleep' 2020