The Hard Problem by Jesse Winters

The Hazard of Consciousness

Key References:

Jaak Panksepp 'Affective Neuroscience' 1998

Jordan Peterson '12 Rules for Life' 2018

Thoughts on Thinking

Key References:

Ap Dijksterhuis and Madelijn Strick 'A Case for Thinking Without Consciousness' 2016

Life and Consciousness

Key References:

Jon Mallatt, Michael Blatt, Andreas Draguhn, David Robinson, and Lincoln Taiz 'Debunking a Myth: Plant Consciousness' 2021

Frantisek Baluska and Arthur Reber 'Sentience and Consciousness in Single Cells: How the First Minds Emerged in Unicellular Species' 2019

Consciousness and Small Networks

Key References:

Michael Herzog, Michael Esfeld, and Wulfram Gerstner 'Consciousness and the Small Network Argument' 2007

Jesse Winters 'The Temporally-Integrated Causality Landscape: Reconciling Neuroscientific Theories with the Phenomenology of Consciousness' 2021

Disunity and Consciousness

Key References:

Semir Zeki 'The Disunity of Consciousness' 2003

 

Theory and Falsification

Key References:

A.C. Grayling 'The History of Philosophy' 2019

Patricia Churchland 'Neurophilosophy' 1986

Consciousness Without a Cortex

Key References:

D Alan Shewmon, Gregory Holmes, Paul Byrne 'Consciousness in congenitally decorticate children: Developmental vegetative state as self-fulfilling prophecy' 1999

Jaak Panksepp 'Affective Neuroscience' 1998

The Coercion of Consciousness

Key References:

Andrea Lavazza 'Human Cerebral Organoids and Consciousness: A Double-edged Sword' 2020

Likeness and Somethingness

Key References:

David Chalmers 'The Conscious Mind' 1996

Philip Goff 'Galileo's Error' 2019

Force and Consciousness

Key References:

Personal communications with Dr. Colin Hales, 2021

Frank Wilczek 'Fundamentals' 2021