https://matthiasgruber.com/blog/tags/comparison/ Recent content in Comparison on Matthias Gruber — Blog Hugo en Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://matthiasgruber.com/blog/one-theory-all-the-phenomena/ Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://matthiasgruber.com/blog/one-theory-all-the-phenomena/ <p>The field of consciousness science has a fragmentation problem. Integrated Information Theory explains integration. Global Workspace Theory explains access. Predictive Processing explains perception. Higher-Order Thought theories explain metacognition. Each handles its home turf — and struggles everywhere else.</p> <p>The Four-Model Theory proposes a single architecture that accounts for all of them.</p> <p>Four functional models — world, body, self, and a meta-model integrating them — operating at a critical dynamical regime. Consciousness is what the integration produces. Disrupt any component, and phenomenology changes exactly as neuroscience observes.</p>