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369 results for "Global Consciousness Project" — page 6 of 19
K_3_05 — Extended Mind and Cognitive Extension
The extended mind thesis (EMT), proposed by Andy Clark and David Chalmers in their landmark 1998 paper "The Extended Mind," argues that cognitive processes need not be confined within the skull — external objects, tools,
K_3_12 — Blindsight and Unconscious Vision: Seeing Without Awareness
Blindsight is a neurological phenomenon in which individuals who are cortically blind — having lost conscious visual experience in part or all of their visual field due to damage to the primary visual cortex (V1/striate
K_3_13 — Coma, Vegetative State, and Minimally Conscious State: Clinical Boundaries
Disorders of consciousness (DoC) — clinical conditions in which awareness (the content of consciousness — perception, thought, experience) and/or arousal (the level of wakefulness — eyes open, sleep-wake cycles) are seve
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
K_1_11 — Dualism: Mind-Body Problem Across Philosophy and Neuroscience
The mind-body problem — the question of how subjective mental experience (consciousness, thought, sensation, emotion) relates to the physical body (brain, nervous system, matter) — is arguably the oldest and most persist
K_1_04 — Brain as Filter vs Generator
Two opposing models have dominated the consciousness debate for over a century:
K_1_02 — Biocentrism and Observer-Dependent Reality
Biocentrism, proposed by Robert Lanza (stem cell biologist) and Bob Berman (astronomer) in 2009, argues that consciousness is FUNDAMENTAL to the universe — not an accidental byproduct of matter — and that the universe's
K_1_10 — Panpsychism — Comprehensive Survey
Panpsychism — the view that consciousness or experiential properties are fundamental and ubiquitous features of the physical world — has experienced a dramatic revival in analytic philosophy since the early 2000s, driven
K_1_09 — Philosophical Zombies and the Hard Problem
The philosophical zombie (p-zombie) thought experiment, formalized by David Chalmers (1996), asks: Could there exist a being physically and functionally identical to a conscious human — identical atom for atom, processin
K_1_12 — Orchestrated Objective Reduction: Penrose-Hameroff Theory Deep Dive
Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) is a theory of consciousness proposed by mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose (b. 1931, Nobel Prize in Physics 2020) and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff (b. 1947), first ar
K_1_14 — Qualia: The Subjective Experience Problem
Qualia (singular: quale) — the term used in philosophy of mind for the subjective, experiential properties of conscious mental states — the redness of red, the painfulness of pain, the taste of coffee, the felt quality o
J_4_01 — Trepanation and Ancient Neurosurgery
This document examines Trepanation and Ancient Neurosurgery, a topic within the Ancient Technology research area. Key areas of investigation include Definition and Terminology, Antiquity and Scope, The Peruvian Concentra
INTERDOC_56 — Three-Field Convergence: Quantum Measurement, the Hard Problem, and the UAP Observation Problem
Three independent fields — quantum measurement (physics), the Hard Problem (philosophy of mind), and the UAP observation phenomenon (military / intelligence / sensor data) — converge on the same unresolved question: what
ZB_2_23 — Cephalopod Intelligence and Distributed Cognition
Cephalopods — octopuses, cuttlefish, squid, and nautiluses — represent one of evolution's most extraordinary experiments in intelligence, having diverged from the vertebrate lineage approximately 530 million years ago ye
ZB_1_01 — Animal Cognition — Corvids, Cetaceans, Cephalopods, and Non-Human Minds
The study of animal cognition has undergone a revolution over the past three decades, dismantling the long-held assumption that complex thought is uniquely human. The 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness formally
ZB_1_08 — Cephalopod Intelligence and Cognition
Cephalopods — octopuses, squid, cuttlefish, and nautiluses — represent the pinnacle of invertebrate cognitive evolution, having independently evolved complex brains and sophisticated behaviors along a lineage that diverg
ZC_5_08 — Development Studies: Modernization, Dependency, and Post-Development
Development studies is an interdisciplinary field examining the economic, social, political, and cultural processes by which societies become "developed" — and critically interrogating what "development" means, who defin
ZC_5_19 — Network Society — Castells
Manuel Castells (born 1942 in Hellín, Spain), professor at the University of Southern California and emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, produced one of the most ambitious sociological analyses of the lat
ZC_2_19 — World-Systems Theory — Wallerstein
World-systems theory, developed by Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019) beginning with The Modern World-System I (1974), provides a macro-sociological framework for understanding global inequality, economic development, and
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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