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Compare access, phenomenal experience and measurable neural correlates across competing theories.
No neuroscience degree required. Learn the distinction between experience, report and neural measurement before comparing the theories; technical papers can be read after the book selections.
A theory comparison with predictions, measurements and unresolved assumptions.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy editors · reference
Wakefulness, phenomenal experience and report
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Open the readingConsciousness. Distinguish experience, wakefulness and report before comparing explanations.
Stanislas Dehaene · book · 2014
Global availability and perceptual accounts
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Open the readingAnil Seth · book · 2021
Global availability and perceptual accounts
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Open the readingConsciousness and the Brain. Identify the proposed mechanism of conscious access and the experiments used to support it.
Being You. Trace the connection between perceptual inference, bodily regulation and the account of experience.
Giulio Tononi · Christof Koch · paper · 2015
Integrated information and recurrent processing predictions
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Open the readingVictor Lamme · paper · 2006
Integrated information and recurrent processing predictions
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Open the readingConsciousness: Here, There and Everywhere?. Separate the account’s formal commitments from its predictions about particular systems.
Towards a true neural stance on consciousness. Identify what recurrent processing is proposed to explain and how that claim could be tested.
Casali et al. · paper · 2013
Perturbation, complexity measure and validation
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Open the readingA theoretically based index of consciousness independent of sensory processing and behavior. Follow the perturbation, recorded response and validation comparison; note what the index does not directly measure.
Editorial perspectives based on selected works, rather than author-endorsed reading lists.
An editorial comparison of the route’s selected accounts and evidence.
A curated synthesis cannot be neutral or exhaustive. Follow the primary sources when an interpretation matters.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Anil Seth.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Stanislas Dehaene.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Giulio Tononi.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
Background, different viewpoints, and further reading.
Identify the proposed mechanism of conscious access and the experiments used to support it.
Global availability and perceptual accounts
Trace the connection between perceptual inference, bodily regulation and the account of experience.
Global availability and perceptual accounts
Extract one claim and distinguish the evidence supporting it from the author’s interpretation.
Selected chapters and argument
Separate the account’s formal commitments from its predictions about particular systems.
Integrated information and recurrent processing predictions
Identify what recurrent processing is proposed to explain and how that claim could be tested.
Integrated information and recurrent processing predictions
Follow the perturbation, recorded response and validation comparison; note what the index does not directly measure.
Perturbation, complexity measure and validation
Extract one claim and distinguish the evidence supporting it from the author’s interpretation.
Selected chapters and argument
Use this account to revise your initial explanation and identify an unresolved question.
Selected chapters and argument
Reconstruct one argument about explanatory sufficiency and distinguish it from an empirical mechanism claim.
Explanatory gaps and empirical research questions
Distinguish experience, wakefulness and report before comparing explanations.
Wakefulness, phenomenal experience and report
Compare research questions, measures and the limits of moving from observation to experience.
Explanatory gaps and empirical research questions
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Compare what a theory explains about experience with what it assumes about representation.
Distinguish behavioural performance and neural measures from claims about experience.