Rigorous independent inquiry into the nature of consciousness, experience, and the fabric of reality.
Rigorous independent inquiry into the nature of consciousness, experience, and the fabric of reality.
Progress on consciousness has been hindered by the absence of agreed-upon criteria for success. We derive those criteria — logical consequences of the bare fact that experience exists — and apply them diagnostically to every major framework.
From the single undeniable premise that experience exists, we derive nine constraints any viable theory must satisfy. Not hypotheses. Not assumptions. Logical necessities.
We apply these constraints to every major framework in the philosophy of mind. The results are decisive.
Through monographs, journal articles, and in-depth analyses, we make this work available to philosophers, scientists, and anyone willing to think seriously about what consciousness requires.