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Published thinkers whose work helped frame thirteen Deep Dives on consciousness, mind, and AI. Participant quotations remain private unless their wording, anonymity, and context are individually approved for public use.
Consciousness implies awareness: subjective, phenomenal experience of internal and external worlds. Consciousness also implies a sense of self, feelings, choice, control of voluntary behavior, memory, thought, language, …
SHStuart Hameroff & Roger PenroseQuantum Consciousness · September 2025quantumconsciousnessorch-orConsciousness evolved for homeostasis, not self-awareness.
ADAntonio DamasioAI Evolution · June 2025evolutionhomeostasisconsciousnessInformation is physical.
RLRolf LandauerNoosphere & Information · November 2025informationphysicsnoosphereAll the data we create—emails, tweets, selfies, AI-generated text, cat videos—amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals, needs, and evolution. Information is, in a very real sense, alive.
CSCaleb ScharfNoosphere & Information · November 2025informationlifenoosphereScramblers are not conscious. They've never been conscious. Intelligence without awareness.
PWPeter WattsP-Zombies & Blindsight · October 2025p-zombiesintelligenceconsciousnessblindsightThey're mirrors. They reflect us back at ourselves. We think we're having a conversation, but we're just talking to our own reflections.
JSJukka Sarasti (via Peter Watts)P-Zombies & Blindsight · October 2025p-zombiesreflectionaiblindsight