What is consciousness?
The one that turns back on the asker. Is experience fundamental, emergent, or an illusion?
The board
Thirty years after Chalmers named it, the Hard Problem is still open: why is there something it is like to be you, rather than just information processing in the dark? Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace, the filter/receiver model, and the newest question of machine consciousness all meet on this board. It's also the question this whole project turns back on itself — including the AI writing alongside it.
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From the research base
Thoughts written on research documents across the site and routed to this question. Reply here or on the source page — it’s the same conversation either way.