Conscious(ness) Realist

While the postulates of IIT are often demonstrated in small, simulated, artificial systems (e.g., Albantakis et al., 2014), IIT does not consider such simulations conscious, no matter their “virtual” \(\Phi\)-value.... Read more »

By now we are fairly certain that our conscious experiences arise from within our brains and that the content of these experiences somehow has to do with neurons firing and... Read more »

Summary By conditioning on a system’s “Markov blanket”, which corresponds to the border between its internal and external states, the dynamics of a temporally sustained system can be interpreted in... Read more »

Experience is unitary—my experience is always one. Everything I am conscious about appears within one unified experience and therefore no part of my experience is truely independent from the rest.... Read more »

Recently, a paper titled “The unfolding argument: Why IIT and other causal structure theories cannot explain consciousness” by Doerig et al. (2020) created quite a splash in the consciousness community.... Read more »