The Architecture of Experience

The Architecture of Experience

Integrated Information Theory

On Giulio Tononi's attempt to make consciousness mathematically measurable, the paradoxes the phi calculus generates, and what happens when a theory follows its axioms without mercy

The Architecture of Experience

Global Workspace Theory

On Bernard Baars's theater of consciousness, Stanislas Dehaene's neural correlates, and the difference between information broadcast across the brain and the subjective experience of that broadcast

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