The Human Operating Manual

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”

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