8 papers in the library · 2 citations · publishing 2023-2026
July 31, 2026 Chris Percy
This chapter explores the profound possibility of mind uploading, the theoretical process of transferring human minds from biological brains to digital hardware. It examines the ‘whole brain emulation’ roadmap, which involves scanning the brain&s;s detailed structure and recreating its causal interactions within a computer simulation. The discussion highlights two critical philosophical...
Consciousness and Cognition February 3, 2026 Chris Percy, Gautam Agarwal
Our aim is to explore neural network mechanisms for phenomenal binding, i.e. combining micro-units of information into the macro-scale conscious experience common in human phenomenology. Such experiential complexity is a key feature that aspiring theories of phenomenal consciousness must account for. We motivate phenomenal binding in a way that aids translation to computational neuroscience,...
arXiv Preprint Archive January 22, 2026 Derek Shiller, Laura Duffy, Arvo Muñoz Morán et al. preprint
Artificially intelligent systems have become remarkably sophisticated. They hold conversations, write essays, and seem to understand context in ways that surprise even their creators. This raises a crucial question: Are we creating systems that are conscious? The Digital Consciousness Model (DCM) is a first attempt to assess the evidence for consciousness in AI systems in a systematic,...
Journal of Consciousness Studies October 1, 2025 Chris Percy, Alfredo Parra-Hinojosa
Many modern theories of consciousness seek to be consistent with prevailing scientific theories of the physical. While ontological flexibilities and current uncertainties in physical laws permit many options, it remains valuable to monitor evolving scientific thinking, generating new constraints and ideas for consciousness research. A structured literature review identifies 24 distinct...
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) March 25, 2025 Chris Percy, Andrés Gómez-Emilsson 2 citations
Theories of consciousness grounded in neuroscience must explain the phenomenal binding problem, e.g., how micro-units of information are combined to create the macro-scale conscious experience common to human phenomenology. An example is how single 'pixels' of a visual scene are experienced as a single holistic image in the 'mind's eye', rather than as individual, separate, and massively...
Journal of Consciousness Studies February 1, 2025 Chris Percy
Frustration has been growing with mainstay epistemological methods of logical deduction and experimental falsification for assessing theories of consciousness. This paper explores one among several recent alternatives being explored, captured here under the term 'listed requirements'. This paper conducts a structured literature search and critical review of attempts to develop such lists,...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2024 Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, Chris Percy correction
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2023 Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, Chris Percy
The boundary problem is related to the binding problem, part of a family of puzzles and phenomenal experiences that theories of consciousness (ToC) must either explain or eliminate. By comparison with the phenomenal binding problem, the boundary problem has received very little scholarly attention since first framed in detail by Rosengard in 1998, despite discussion by Chalmers in his widely...