The Hard Problem by Jesse Winters

Illusions of Self

Key References:

Olaf Blanke and Thomas Metzinger 'Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood' 2009

The Construct of Self

Key References:

Michael Pollan 'How to Change Your Mind' 2018

Raphael Milliere et al. 'Psychedelics, Meditation, and Self-Consciousness' 2018

Columns of Consciousness

Key References:

Gerald M. Edelman and Vernon B. Mountcastle 'The Mindful Brain' 1978

The Unfolding of Consciousness

Key References

Adrien Doerig, Aaron Schurger, Kathryn Hess, and Michael Herzog 'The Unfolding Argument: Why IIT and Other Causal Theories Cannot Explain Consciousness' 2019 

John Searle 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 1997

The Dissociation of Consciousness

Key References:

Bernardo Kastrup 'Bernardo Kastrup's Small Theory of Everything' 2015 (YouTube)

Simone Reinders 'Cross-examining dissociative identity disorder: Neuroimaging and etiology on trial' 2008

 

Consciousness Fast and Slow

Key References:

Arthur C. Clarke 'Childhood's End' 1953

Carl Sagan 'Cosmos' 1980

Resonance and Consciousness

Key References:

Tam Hunt and Jonathan Schooler 'The Easy Part of the Hard Problem: A Resonance Theory of Consciousness' 2019

The Dimensions of Consciousness

Key References:

George Northoff and Zirui Huang 'How do the brain's time and space mediate consciousness and its different dimensions? Temporo-spatial theory of consciousness (TTC)' 2017

The River of Time

Key References:

Lachlan Kent and Marc Whitmann 'Time Consciousness: The Missing Link in Theories of Consciousness' 2021

Jesse Winters 'The Temporally-Integrated Causality Landscape: A Theoretical Framework for Consciousness and Meaning' 2020

Concepts and Perception

Key References:

Stephen Hawking 'The Universe in a Nutshell' 2001

Oliver Sacks 'Hallucinations' 2012

Donald Hoffman 'The Case Against Reality' 2019

Marvin Minsky 'The Society of Mind' 1985