Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Let’s assume for a moment that materialism is correct and that the brain produces conscious experience. Let’s explore the miracle that this would imply. Think about your thoughts and feelings. You know you are experiencing them, but you can’t touch them. They are nonphysical. How is it that these nonphysical thoughts
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
An experiment seven years in the making has uncovered new insights into the nature of consciousness and challenges two prominent, competing scientific theories: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT).
- IIT suggests that consciousness emerges when information inside a system (like the brain) is highly connected
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Now we see why consciousness requires more than just integrated information. A sentient system must have a cohesive model of the world, built up through interaction with it, and that world model must include a model of the system doing the modeling.