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Search the full theory index, from brain-based explanations to ideas about the nature of mind itself. These entries ask different questions and have different kinds of support. Being listed here does not make an idea proven.
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Index by Robert Lawrence Kuhn / Closer To Truth. Names, classifications and links imported from the Landscape of Consciousness on . Browsing interface and original concise summaries by The Consciousness Atlas.
This snapshot contains every entry linked in that index, including overviews and historical perspectives. Read each source page for its full account. Click an entry to reveal its summary. The source continues to evolve.
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- Read at Closer To Truth — A. Clark and Chalmers’s Extended Mind (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / RelationalA. Clark and Chalmers’s Extended MindShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — A. Harris’s Panpsychism as Fundamental Field (opens in a new tab)
PanpsychismsA. Harris’s Panpsychism as Fundamental FieldShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Agüera y Arcas’s Computational Functionalism (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / Computational & FunctionalismAgüera y Arcas’s Computational FunctionalismShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Akselrud's Explanatory Faculty: Consciousness as Internalized Explanation (opens in a new tab)
ChallengeAkselrud's Explanatory Faculty: Consciousness as Internalized ExplanationShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Albahari’s Perennial Idealism (opens in a new tab)
IdealismsAlbahari’s Perennial IdealismShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Ambron’s Local Field Potentials and Electromagnetic Waves (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / Electromagnetic FieldAmbron’s Local Field Potentials and Electromagnetic WavesShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Andrews's Consciousness Without Complex Brains (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / Phylogenetic/EvolutionaryAndrews's Consciousness Without Complex BrainsShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Anomalous & Altered States—Overview (opens in a new tab)
Anomalous & Altered StatesAnomalous & Altered States—OverviewShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Anomalous and Altered States Additional Theories (opens in a new tab)
Anomalous & Altered StatesAnomalous and Altered States Additional TheoriesShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Aquinas’s Hylomorphism (opens in a new tab)
DualismsAquinas’s HylomorphismShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Arendsen’s Complex Idealism (opens in a new tab)
IdealismsArendsen’s Complex IdealismShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Aristotle’s Hylomorphism (opens in a new tab)
DualismsAristotle’s HylomorphismShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Armstrong’s Causal-Role Central-State Materialism (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / Mind-Brain IdentityArmstrong’s Causal-Role Central-State MaterialismShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Armstrong’s Higher-Order Perception Theory (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / Higher-OrderArmstrong’s Higher-Order Perception TheoryShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Atmanspacher’s Dual-Aspect Monism (opens in a new tab)
Neutral MonismAtmanspacher’s Dual-Aspect MonismShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Avicenna’s Flying Man and Self-Present Soul (opens in a new tab)
DualismsAvicenna’s Flying Man and Self-Present SoulShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Awret’s Holographic Correspondence Theory of Consciousness (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / Computational & FunctionalismAwret’s Holographic Correspondence Theory of ConsciousnessShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Baars’s and Dehaene’s Global Workspace Theory (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / NeurobiologicalBaars’s and Dehaene’s Global Workspace TheoryShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Bach’s Cortical Conductor Theory (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / NeurobiologicalBach’s Cortical Conductor TheoryShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Barušs’s Meaning Fields (opens in a new tab)
Anomalous & Altered StatesBarušs’s Meaning FieldsShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Bayne’s Unified, Multidimensional Consciousness: Structure Before Mechanism (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / PhilosophicalBayne’s Unified, Multidimensional Consciousness: Structure Before MechanismShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Beck-Eccles’s Quantum Processes in the Synapse (opens in a new tab)
Quantum & DimensionsBeck-Eccles’s Quantum Processes in the SynapseShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Becker’s Analog Body Electric (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / Electromagnetic FieldBecker’s Analog Body ElectricShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Bentley Hart’s Consciousness, Being, God (opens in a new tab)
IdealismsBentley Hart’s Consciousness, Being, GodShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Bergson’s Multiplicity, Duration, Perception, Memory (opens in a new tab)
DualismsBergson’s Multiplicity, Duration, Perception, MemoryShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Berkeley’s Immaterialist Idealism (opens in a new tab)
IdealismsBerkeley’s Immaterialist IdealismShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Bhartṛhari’s Linguistic Idealism (opens in a new tab)
IdealismsBhartṛhari’s Linguistic IdealismShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Bieberich’s Fractal Loops and Sentyons of Bright Matter (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / NeurobiologicalBieberich’s Fractal Loops and Sentyons of Bright MatterShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Birch’s Comparative Sentience: Consciousness Profiles Across Diverse Minds (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / Phylogenetic/EvolutionaryBirch’s Comparative Sentience: Consciousness Profiles Across Diverse MindsShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Bitar’s Architectural Theory of Consciousness (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / Computational & FunctionalismBitar’s Architectural Theory of ConsciousnessShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Bitbol’s Phenomenological Ontology (opens in a new tab)
Anomalous & Altered StatesBitbol’s Phenomenological OntologyShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Bitbol’s Radical Neurophenomenology (opens in a new tab)
PhenomenologyBitbol’s Radical NeurophenomenologyShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Blackmore’s “It’s All Models” (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / Eliminative/IllusionismBlackmore’s “It’s All Models”Show summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Block’s Biological Reductionism (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / NeurobiologicalBlock’s Biological ReductionismShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Blums’ Conscious Turing Machine (opens in a new tab)
Materialism / Computational & FunctionalismBlums’ Conscious Turing MachineShow summaryHide summary
- Read at Closer To Truth — Bohm’s Implicate-Explicate Order (opens in a new tab)
Quantum & DimensionsBohm’s Implicate-Explicate OrderShow summaryHide summary