The Architecture of Awareness

What is consciousness and how does it arise?

Focus:

• Theories of consciousness (IIT, GWT, HOTs, etc.)

• The “hard problem” of consciousness

• Neural correlates vs. emergence vs. panpsychism

• Enactivism & embodied cognition

• Consciousness as entropy management (Friston, predictive processing)

Optional Cheatsheet: “Consciousness Theories Explained”