consciousness-emergence

What is this?

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📚 Glossary

Consciousness

Subjective experience - what it's like to be something

Qualia

Individual instances of subjective experience (the redness of red)

Phi

Measure of integrated information in IIT

HardProblem

Why physical processes give rise to subjective experience

NCC

Neural Correlates of Consciousness - brain activity tied to awareness

IIT

Integrated Information Theory

GWT

Global Workspace Theory

Panpsychism

View that consciousness is fundamental to nature

Zombie

Philosophical hypothetical - being that acts conscious but isn't

Phenomenal

Relating to subjective experience

🏆 Key Figures

Giulio Tononi

Integrated Information Theory (IIT)

David Chalmers

Hard problem of consciousness, philosophical frameworks

Bernard Baars

Global Workspace Theory

Christof Koch

Neural correlates, IIT research

Francis Crick

Brought consciousness into neuroscience

Thomas Nagel

'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' - classic paper

💬 Message to Learners

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