Subfolder: K1_Theories_Frameworks | Parent Section: K — Consciousness & Mind
Document Count: 14 | Last Updated: March 14, 2026
Category Tags: consciousness, neuroscience, philosophy, quantum-physics, nde-afterlife, metaphysics, physics, shamanism

OVERVIEW

This subfolder contains 14 documents covering Theories Frameworks within the Consciousness & Mind section. Topics include Quantum Consciousness & Penrose-Hameroff, Biocentrism and Observer-Dependent Reality, Free Energy Principle and Predictive Processing, Brain as Filter vs Generator, Global Workspace Theory and 9 more topics. Key themes span panpsychism, hard problem, explanatory gap, phenomenal consciousness, quantum consciousness, consciousness.

KEY POINTS

• K_1_01 — The Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) theory — proposed by Nobel laureate Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff — suggests consciousness arises from quantum computations in…
• K_1_02 — 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…
• K_1_03 — The Free Energy Principle (FEP), developed by neuroscientist Karl Friston (2006-present), is one of the most ambitious theoretical frameworks in 21st-century science: it attempts to explain the…
• K_1_04 — Two opposing models have dominated the consciousness debate for over a century: 1.
• K_1_05 — Global Workspace Theory (GWT), proposed by Bernard Baars (1988) and neurally formalized by Stanislas Dehaene and Jean-Pierre Changeux as the Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW, 1998–2011), is one of the…
• K_1_06 — Predictive processing (PP) is a unifying framework in cognitive neuroscience proposing that the brain is fundamentally a prediction machine — it continuously generates top-down predictions of…
• K_1_07 — The "hard problem of consciousness," named by philosopher David Chalmers (1995), is the question of why and how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience — why there is…
• K_1_08 — Higher-order (HO) theories of consciousness propose that a mental state becomes conscious not by virtue of its intrinsic properties but because it is the target of a **higher-order mental…
• K_1_09 — 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 —…
• K_1_10 — 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…
• K_1_11 — 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…
• K_1_12 — Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) is a theory of consciousness proposed by mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose (b.
• K_1_13 — Enactivism is a radical approach to cognition and consciousness that rejects the traditional computational model of the mind (the brain as information-processing computer operating on internal…
• K_1_14 — 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…

KEY THEMES & KEYWORDS

panpsychism, hard problem, explanatory gap, phenomenal consciousness, quantum consciousness, consciousness, qualia, mary's room, knowledge argument, chalmers, orch-or, orchestrated objective reduction, penrose, hameroff, biocentrism

DOCUMENT INDEX

WHAT TO EXPECT

Documents in this subfolder follow the project's 4-tier evidence system:

• Tier 1 (Verified): Peer-reviewed, archaeological record, primary texts
• Tier 2 (Credible): Academic, debated but supported by evidence
• Tier 3 (Speculative): Possible but unverified
• Tier 4 (Dubious): No credible source or contradicted by evidence

Tier distribution in this subfolder: 1: 1 docs, 2: 3 docs, 2–3: 1 docs

Each document includes a Quick Summary, tiered claims with specific evidence,

counter-arguments, bibliography, and cross-references to related documents across the corpus.

Subfolder summary auto-generated from corpus analysis. Last Updated: March 14, 2026