Conscious(ness) Realist

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 »

Summary Consciousness runs at a particular macro spatio-temporal scale. This fact is often underappreciated as a characteristic of our phenomenology that requires a principled explanation. Here, however, it is the... Read more »