Emergent Predictive Experience Theory (EPET): An Integrative Philosophy of Consciousness
May 16, 2025 Andrey Kopnin preprint
This paper introduces the Emergent Predictive Experience Theory (EPET), an integrative framework addressing the hard problem of consciousness from a non-reductive emergentist physicalist perspective. EPET synthesizes key insights from Predictive Processing (PP), Global Workspace Theory (GWT), embodied cognition, and core Buddhist philosophical principles (notably Anattā - no-self, and...