Thoughts on consciousness, AI, science, and the architecture of reality.
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.