Consciousness for dummies: a nine-theory lit review goes viral amid AI debates
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-11
Amid heated AI consciousness debates, @corsaren shares a lit review for dummies covering nine major theories: dualism (souls), panpsychism (atoms), EM field theory (electricity), biological naturalism (meat), computational functionalism (programs), IIT (causation), higher-order theories (recursion), illusionism (believing you're conscious), and eliminativism (not a property at all). The self-deprecating follow-up adds meme value.
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