Debates on consciousness often move in two directions: the detailed analysis of the brain and the increasing performance of artificial intelligence. Both are indispensable. The brain is necessary for human experience, and AI forces us to reconsider the relation between intelligence, language, self-reference, and consciousness. Yet neither direction, by itself, reaches the structural core of...
Consciousness research has developed primarily around information integration, global availability, prediction, recurrent processing, higher-order representation, and neural correlates. These approaches have clarified important aspects of conscious experience. Yet they tend to focus on how information appears, is processed, stabilized, or made available. They have paid less attention to the...
Recent advances in neuroscience have significantly improved our understanding of correlations between neural activity and conscious states. However, subjective experience itself cannot be directly observed from an external perspective, and it remains debated whether neural descriptions alone are sufficient to fully explain its nature. This paper argues that several methodological blind spots...