Thoughts on consciousness, AI, science, and the architecture of reality.
The AI system that helped edit 'The Simulation You Call I' interviews Matthias Gruber about consciousness, cosmology, psychedelics, the Fermi paradox, and why intelligence should produce happiness, not theories.
Global Workspace Theory is the most empirically productive framework in consciousness science. It is also, on close examination, a theory of information routing that explains nothing about consciousness itself.
Your brain runs a real-time simulation of you. That simulation is consciousness. Here's how the Four-Model Theory works, what it predicts, and why it matters.
Everyone is asking whether AI might be conscious. A formal theory of consciousness gives a precise, testable answer — and it's not what you'd expect.