Assessment of Physical Processes for Describing Mechanism of Occurrence and Measurement of Consciousness
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness October 27, 2024 C. Johnstone, Prashant S. Alegaonkar
A review of five physical approaches to consciousness—von Neumann–Wigner, orchestrated objective reduction, integrated information, consciousness as a state of matter, and electromagnetic field—finds that all except the von Neumann–Wigner approach agree the brain generates and detects consciousness, though they offer distinct explanations. None of the approaches are close to experimental verification, and further work on experimental design and new theories is needed.