Psi and the Anomalous
Consciousness Science
Contemplative Neuroscience
The Brain on God
The Architecture of Experience
The Free Energy Principle
On Karl Friston's active inference framework, the brain as a prediction machine that minimizes surprise, and what it means to say that perception is controlled hallucination
The Architecture of Experience
The Binding Problem
On how the brain's distributed and parallel processing produces unified conscious experience, the synchrony hypothesis, and what the binding problem reveals about the outer limits of reductive neuroscience
The Architecture of Experience
Panpsychism and the Combination Problem
On the philosophical move that attributes experience to fundamental physics, Philip Goff's case for panpsychism, and why the combination of micro-experiences into human consciousness remains the theory's unresolved center