A Wave-Particle Theory of Conscious Awareness (A Philosophical Viewpoint)

by Jack Calverley, Carter Blakelaw

Overview

If we are to explain consciousness, at some point our explanation must come to:

...thus X happens and, as you can now see, this gives rise to full consciousness.

The question this text answers is: What is it you must see? (as well as: what is X?)

The answer is provided in the form of eighteen steps that analyse, reverse-engineer, and reconstruct the phenomena that constitute consciousness. As the title suggests, the text digs as deep as the quantum level.

(In this 2025 updated edition the text starts with a bonus first chapter on why today's LLM AIs cannot be conscious)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940180357588
Publisher:	The Logic of Dreams
Publication date:	12/08/2024
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Carter Blakelaw lives in bustling central London, in a street with two bookshops and an embassy, any of which might provide escape to new pastures, if only for an afternoon. For over a decade Carter has delivered critiques at writers' workshops and critique groups, some of whose members have transformed themselves into prize-winning and best-selling authors. However, it is the frequency of numerous weaknesses, as exposed by these groups and especially in the work of developing writers, that motivates the writing of this book.