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Writing at the intersection of consciousness, neuroscience, neuromorphic computing, and contemplative practice.
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Consciousness Theory
Where Does Consciousness Live? A Tour of the Brain Structures Different Theories Point To
A guided map of Global Workspace Theory, Integrated Information Theory, Higher-Order Theories, Recurrent Processing Theory, thalamocortical accounts, predictive processing, Attention Schema Theory, and Orch-OR — and the specific brain structure each one points to.
Consciousness Theory
Catching Consciousness in the Act: How Neuroscientists Actually Test for It
A survey of the methods — EEG, TMS-EEG, no-report paradigms, direct brain stimulation — and the specific experiments, from binocular rivalry to the Cogitate adversarial collaboration, that gather evidence for and against competing theories.
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Consciousness Theory
The Measurement Problem as a Consciousness Problem
How the quantum measurement problem — what causes wavefunction collapse, and who or what "observes" — might be the same question as: what is the subject of conscious experience? Exploring the deep parallel between physics and philosophy of mind.
Neuromorphic AI
Does Your Neural Network Have a Ground State?
An engineering perspective on the consciousness hypothesis. If intelligence requires a stable zero-reference, what does that mean for hardware design? Exploring reset mechanisms in Phase-Change Memory, equilibrium states in analog AI, and what biology might be doing that silicon isn't.
Contemplative Science
What Meditation Teaches About Reference Frames
In deep meditative states, the ordinary subject-object boundary dissolves. What remains? Exploring how this first-person phenomenology maps to the theoretical concept of the universal ground state, and what neuroscience might be able to say about it.
Integration
From Bits to Beings: Information, Perception, and the Hard Problem
Chalmers' "hard problem" asks why there is something it is like to be a system processing information. This essay argues that the problem dissolves when perception is recognised not as a product of information processing, but as its precondition — with the universal ground state providing the necessary zero reference.
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