Going over the consciousness theories of Kastrup, Friston, Whitehead, Solms, and Metzinger

In reverse order, here’s what I’ve tackled so far. You can see the full playlist on YouTube here.

Consciousness Iceberg [Layer 5]

1. Bernardo Kastrup's Analytic Idealism

2. Karl Friston's Enactive Approach / Inference

3. Alfred North Whitehead's Pan-Experientialism

4. Mark Solms' Felt Uncertainty Principle and Affective Theory

5. Thomas Metzinger's Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood

Consciousness Iceberg [Layer 4]

1. Douglas Hofstadter's Strange Loops

2. Penrose's Theory of Quantum Consciousness

3. Christopher Langan's CTMU

4. Johnjoe McFadden's Conscious Electromagnetic Information (CEMI) Field Theory

5. David Chalmers' Extended Mind Hypothesis

6. Iain McGilchrist's Relational Dual-Aspect Monism"

Consciousness Iceberg [Layer 3]

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

Consciousness Iceberg [Layer 2]

1. The Hard Problem of Consciousness

2. Qualia and Phenomenal Consciousness

3. Advaita Vedanta: Non-dualism in Indian Philosophy

4. John Vervaeke's Relevance Realization

5. Panpsychism and the Combination Problem

6. Buddhist Consciousness: Yogācāra and Madhyamaka Views

7. Global Workspace Theory

8. Carl Jung's Explanation for Consciousness

Consciousness Iceberg [Layer 1]

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

Soon, I will compile these into a 3-hour video. For now, you can watch them in smaller chunks, separated by “Layer.”

- Curt Jaimungal