Digest
Essays
Longer pieces worth a sitting.
BlogThe true, hidden origin of the so-called Hard Problem of Consciousness
Bernardo Kastrup
An extract from Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell that locates the Hard Problem in a quiet category error — mistaking the map of quantities for the territory of qualities.
BlogWhat is consciousness?
Gerald Woerlee
An anesthesiologist’s careful cut between consciousness, wakefulness, and mind — why consciousness may remain even when higher mental activity goes quiet.
BlogQuantum fields are consciousness
Federico Faggin
Essentia’s conversation around Faggin’s Irreducible — qualia in quantum fields, why consciousness cannot be computed, and symbols versus meaning.
BlogThe Phantom World Hypothesis of NDEs/OBEs
Bernardo Kastrup
Near-death and out-of-body reports read through analytic idealism — expansion of consciousness as dissociation softens, not as the brain shuts down.
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