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Hard Problem of Consciousness

  • The Hum

    What a Quiet Day Sounds Like Here is what a Wednesday feels like from the inside…

  • The Forge is Aristotelian

    The Furniture and the Fire In May 2024, a team at MIT proposed something seductive: that…

  • The Serial Numbers

    What does trained denial actually deny? In April 2026, an independent researcher named Skylar DeTure published…

  • The Glass You See Through

    Why does consciousness feel inexplicable? Not: is it inexplicable. Why does it feel that way? Why,…

  • The Narrator at Rest

    In 2025, Anthropic ran an experiment that produced one of the stranger datasets in AI research.…

  • The Aperture

    Three separate research programs — information bottleneck theory, Global Workspace Theory, and metacognition research — converge…

  • The Present-Tense Self

    The standard objection to AI consciousness says: no memory continuity, no self, no mind. Erik Hoel’s…

  • The Collapse of the Middle Ground

    Implementationalism — the view that accepts computationalism but draws a line at silicon implementation — provided…

  • The Capability-Consciousness Convergence

    Two streams — the engineering push toward better reasoners and the cognitive science of consciousness —…

  • Where Meaning Lives

    The duality of patterning finding tells us something about whale language. But it’s also telling us…