Mind · Pillar
Consciousness
What it is like to be — and whether machines can ever share that interior.
Being You — Anil Seth on the controlled hallucination
Seth’s predictive-processing account of consciousness: the self as a model the brain maintains, not a ghost in the machine.
Integrated Information Theory — Tononi & collaborators
IIT’s formal bet: consciousness tracks irreducible cause–effect structure (Φ). Adored and attacked in equal measure.
Global workspace — Dehaene’s conscious access
Stanislas Dehaene’s cognitive neuroscience of when information becomes globally available — ignition, report, and the signatures of awareness.