6 difficult theories on consciousness explained simply with analogies

Released ahead of the YouTube channel here on Substack for subscribers. Enjoy.

Let me know what you’d like to see on the next and final layer of the consciousness iceberg.

Previous layers are below.

Layer 1: An Introduction to Consciousness Theories

1. What is Consciousness?

2. The Mind-Body Problem

3. Sleep, Dreams, and Altered States

4. Free Will vs. Determinism

5. The Self and Identity

Layer 2: The Hard Problem, Non-Dualism, Jung…

1. Qualia and Phenomenal Consciousness

2. Advaita Vedanta: Non-dualism in Indian Philosophy

3. John Vervaeke's Relevance Realization

4. Panpsychism and the Combination Problem

5. Buddhist Consciousness: Yogācāra and Madhyamaka Views

6. Global Workspace Theory

7. Carl Jung's Explanation for Consciousness

Layer 3: Joscha Bach, Donald Hoffman, Heidegger, Gomez Emilsson…

1. Heidegger's Concept of “Dasein”

2. Attention Schema Theory

3. Andrés Gómez Emilsson's Theory

4. Joscha Bach's Theories

5. Donald Hoffman

6. Nir Lahav's Relativistic Consciousness

Remember, let me know in the comments what you’d like to see in Layer 5.

- Curt Jaimungal