Writes about phenomenal consciousness, belief and introspection.

"According to the theory, consciousness corresponds to the capacity of a system to integrate information."

Giulio Tononi on how his theory of consciousness tries to explain the fundamental properties a system must have to be able to generate a conscious experience.

"swimming the shared waves of world consciousness; being a part of, and helping to build, this eternal soul"

"as perceptions are ninety percent or more stored knowledge, the present moment needs to be identified [..] perhaps what qualia do is flag the present so that we do not get confused with remembered past or anticipated future."

Jaynes argues that, as recently as 3000 years ago, human nature was split in two, an executive part called a god, and a follower part called a man, and that neither part was consciously aware.

Greg Egan: "A fascinating and thoughtful essay [..] which deals with ideas that are essentially identical to the Dust Theory."

Conclusion: Systems that duplicate our functional organization will be conscious even if they are made of silicon, constructed out of water-pipes, or instantiated in an entire population.

Our descendants may develop means to venture far from the comfortable realms we consider reality, into arbitrarily strange volumes of the all-possible library. Perhaps we can stretch our imaginations enough to peer a short distance into this territory.

Consciousness, the Phenomenal Self, and the First-Person Perspective. Video of 2004 Foerster Lecture at UC Berkeley, Oct. 18, 2004.

A non-profit corporation that wants to achieve life extension through the melding of human consciousness with machine intelligence -- "we have claimed the status of a church".

It has been suggested that consciousness is merely a side-effect of neuronal functions, an epiphenomenon of brain states. On the face of it, Libet's experiments offer support to this theory [..].