Quantum Consciousness: What Penrose and Hameroff Actually Claim
Orch OR stated accurately, the decoherence objection, what experiments show — and why the idea refuses to die.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness: Why Physics Can't Close the Gap
Chalmers split the study of mind into easy problems and one hard one. A close look at why every attempted solution to the hard problem quietly turns out to be a way of changing the question.
The Quantum Observer and Consciousness: Where Physics Ends and Speculation Begins
Measurement in quantum mechanics really does involve an "observer" — but the physics term and the folk idea of a conscious mind collapsing reality are not the same thing. Where the analogy holds, and exactly where it breaks.
Panpsychism as a Hypothesis: Strengths, Weaknesses, and the Combination Problem
Taken seriously rather than dismissed on sight, panpsychism solves one hard problem and inherits another. What the combination problem actually asks, and why it hasn't sunk the view.
Can AI Be Conscious? Functionalism versus Biological Naturalism
Whether a large language model could ever be conscious depends less on how capable it gets and more on which decades-old argument about the nature of mind you find persuasive.