ketan agrawal

consciousness
Last modified on May 09, 2022

Links to “consciousness”

being bored is good sometimes.

I think I got this meme from a veritasium video. But in my subjective experience, I find this to be true. I get a lot of interesting and insightful thoughts when doing…nothing. (“Nothing” can mean doing something that doesn’t require conscious thought, like driving a known route, or folding clothes, or walking somewhere.)

cc: encouraging good patterns of thinking

Going from attention to consciousness (Going from attention to consciousness)

Dehaene et al. – workspace theory of consciousness [1]

Consciousness (Consciousness)

Feels like…we’re going with a neuroscientist’s definition of consciousness here. One that presupposes Identity Theory…

I think he tried to apply the Marr’s Levels construct here – top points are the physical / algorithmic ways consciousness happens, bottom is big picture, what’s the purpose of consciousness?