The Complete Consciousness Iceberg

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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

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

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

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"

Layer 5

1. Bernardo Kastrup…