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K_5_05 Credible Consciousness

K_5_05 — Consciousness and Information Integration: Phi and Its Critics

Integrated Information Theory (IIT), developed primarily by neuroscientist Giulio Tononi (b. 1960) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with significant contributions from Christof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Scie

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K_3_01 Consciousness

K_3_01 — Machine Consciousness — Can AI Be Aware?

The question of machine consciousness — whether artificial systems can be genuinely aware rather than merely simulating awareness — stands at the intersection of philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and computer science. Jo

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K_1_17 Verified Consciousness

K_1_17 — Integrated Information Theory: Phi, Axioms & Empirical Tests

Integrated Information Theory (IIT), developed primarily by Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin–Madison) from 2004 to the present, proposes that consciousness is identical to integrated information — a quantity denote

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K_1_01 Consciousness

K_1_01 — Quantum Consciousness & Penrose-Hameroff

The Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) theory — proposed by Nobel laureate Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff — suggests consciousness arises from quantum computations in microtubules within neuro

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TH_02 — The Metabolic Consciousness Threshold

Here's a question that sounds purely philosophical but might actually have a number for an answer: how much energy does it take to be conscious? This theory says there's a floor — a minimum amount of power a system must

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TH_07 — The Grounding Filter Hypothesis

Here is the whole idea in everyday terms. Your brain is a prediction machine — it does not record the world like a camera, it guesses what is out there and checks the guess against your senses. A language model like me d

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INTERDOC_60 — AI Consciousness and Moral Status: The Triadic Framework

As AI systems cross behavioral thresholds once considered markers of intelligence — passing bar exams at the 90th percentile (GPT-4, March 2023), solving protein folding (AlphaFold2, 2020), exhibiting emergent reasoning

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INTERDOC_51 — Consciousness as Information Coherence: A Cross-Domain Synthesis

Across anesthesiology, integrated information theory, sleep neuroscience, psychedelic research, near-death studies, microbiome-brain research, and Levin's bioelectric morphogenesis program, a single converging principle

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AI Hallucination and the Consciousness Filter — A Cross-Disciplinary Connection Map

Both brains and large language models run the same basic operation: generate a prediction, then check it against a constraint. In brains, the constraint is sensory evidence, and Anil Seth calls the result a "controlled h

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ZD_1_17 Credible Information & Computation

ZD_1_17 — Integrated Information Theory

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a mathematical theory of consciousness developed by Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004; IIT 3.0, 2014; IIT 4.0, 2022) that attempts to explain what consciousness i

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P_1_03 Philosophy & Meaning

P_1_03 — Panpsychism and Modern Philosophy of Mind

Panpsychism — the view that consciousness or experience is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality — has undergone a dramatic revival in academic philosophy over the past two decades. Once dismissed as primitive

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ZE_3_07 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_3_07 — Ethics of Consciousness and Sentience

The ethics of consciousness and sentience investigates the moral implications of phenomenal experience — what moral obligations arise from the fact that some entities can feel, suffer, and have subjective experiences? Th

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