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Visualizing the Landscape of Consciousness
The Consciousness Atlas is an interactive web app that visualizes more than 450 theories of consciousness. It is based on Robert Lawrence Kuhn's 2024 paper, "A Landscape of Consciousness". The Atlas maps theories that address phenomenal consciousness - the subjective feel of experience, such as the redness of red.
What the Atlas is
The Atlas is a visual reference built on Kuhn's taxonomy. It presents the full set of theories at once so you can explore the field visually and open any theory to read its entry, like an encyclopedia with structured entries. Each theory entry shows a concise identity line, conceptual ground, suggested mechanism, empirical notes, implications, and sources.
Why this exists
Consciousness is studied across disciplines - neuroscience, philosophy, and sometimes spiritual or anomalous-state research. Kuhn's paper collects and organizes hundreds of theories along a spectrum from most physical to least physical. The Atlas puts that organization into a visual form so readers, students, and researchers can quickly see how different positions relate and where each theory sits on the spectrum.
How it works
Theories are grouped into eleven main categories, arranged from physical to nonphysical: Materialism, Non-Reductive Physicalism, Quantum and Dimensions, Information, Panpsychism, Neutral Monism, Dualism, Idealism, Phenomenology, Anomalous States, and Challenge Theories. The app shows the whole map at once. Click any theory to read its structured entry, which includes references to canonical sources and named thinkers.
Who it is for
- Students learning philosophy of mind and cognitive science
- Researchers and lecturers looking for an at-a-glance comparative resource
- Journalists and writers who need a quick reference to the range of positions
- Curious readers who want a clear view of what people mean when they talk about consciousness
What the Atlas does not do
The Atlas does not endorse or rank theories. It is a visualization and reference based on Kuhn's taxonomy - collect and present, not judge. It does not attempt to settle the hard problem of consciousness. It is a tool for exploration and comparison.
A note from Kuhn
Kuhn explicitly states the project's purpose: "collect and categorize, not assess and adjudicate." The Consciousness Atlas follows that approach. The data and structure are derived from Kuhn's paper; feedback and suggested corrections are welcome, but the app is a visualization layer on top of Kuhn's work.
Kuhn was not involved in the design or content of the Consciousness Atlas, other than his original paper, 'A Landscape of Consciousness,' which is the sole source.
Landscape of Consciousness Website
The Landscape of Consciousness website is a significant extension, enhancement, and update of Robert Lawrence Kuhn's paper, "A Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations and Implications." The Landscape of Consciousness website contains more than 450 theories of consciousness that can be accessed in five ways: Landscape Grid; Landscape Categories; All Landscape Theories; Landscape Map; Interactive Visualizations. The Landscape of Consciousness is a work-in-progress – permanently.
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Materialism 200
- Hobbes’s Mechanical Phantasms and the Material Mind
- Locke’s Reflexive Consciousness and the Making of the Person
- Hume’s Bundle Theory of Perceptions
- Epiphenomenalism (Materialism)
- Emergence
- Functionalism
- Kim’s Supervenience
- Flanagan's Constructive Naturalism
- Goldstein's Mind-Body Problem
- Mitchell’s 15 Questions
- Ney’s Physicalism, Not Scientism
- Hardcastle's Argument Against Materialism Skeptics
- Stoljar's Epistemic View and Non-Standard Physicalism
- Bayne’s Unified, Multidimensional Consciousness: Structure Before Mechanism
- Weisberg’s Explanatory Optimism via Automated Compression Theory
- Ryle’s Category-Dissolution of Inner-Theater Consciousness
- Feyerabend's Revisable, Disposable Mind
- Dennett’s Illusionism
- Churchland’s Eliminative Materialism
- Frankish’s Illusionism
- Humphrey’s Magical-Compelling User Illusion
- Graziano's Attention Schema Theory
- Blackmore’s “It’s All Models”
- Kammerer’s Introspective Illusionism
- Mandik’s Qualia Quietism
- Irvine’s Scientific Eliminativism
- Ostendorf’s Predictive, Pattern-Driven Interface
- Place’s Empirical Identity and the Phenomenological Fallacy
- Feigl's Double Knowledge of Raw Feels
- Smart’s Topic-Neutral Identity
- Armstrong’s Causal-Role Central-State Materialism
- Quine’s Naturalized Mind and the Demoted Phenomenal
- Sellars’s Sensa Beyond the Given
- Lewis’s Analytic Functionalism and Causal-Role Identity Theory
- Kripke’s Modal Argument Against Mind–Brain Identity
- Levine’s Explanatory Gap
- Papineau's Mind-Brain Identity
- McLaughlin's Neurobiologicalism
- Searle's Biological Naturalism
- Block's Biological Reductionism
- Bunge's Emergent Materialism
- Crick and Koch's Neural Correlates of Consciousness
- Brain Circuits and Cycles Theories
- Baars's and Dehaene's Global Workspace Theory
- Sergent’s Global Playground
- Edelman's Neural Darwinism and Reentrant Neural Circuitry
- W. Freeman's Intentional Neurodynamics
- Calvin’s Darwinian Mechanism in Neocortex
- Hawkins’s Thousand-Brain Remembered Modeling
- He’s Joint Determinant Theory
- Northoff's Temporo-Spatial Sentience
- Bach's Cortical Conductor Theory
- Prinz's Neurofunctionalism: Attention Engenders Experience
- Morsella’s Passive Frame for Action Conflict Resolution
- Gray’s Brain-Built World-Model: Qualia, Comparators, Late-Error Detection
- McComas's Hippocampal Memory-Stream Theory
- Dalla Barba's Temporal Consciousness
- Merker’s Midbrain-Centered Reality Space
- D. Freeman's Primitive Felt Theory
- Ward's Thalamic Dynamic Core and Min's Thalamic Reticular Gate
- Schiff’s Anterior Forebrain Mesocircuit of Conscious Recovery
- Dendritic Integration Theory
- Bieberich's Recurrent Integration Fractal Theory
- Hirstein's Mindmelding
- Libet's Mind Time: Readiness Potential, Unconscious Initiation, Delayed Awareness, Antedating Consciousness
- Sapolsky's Hard Incompatibilism
- Mitchell's Free Agents
- Jones's Electromagnetic Fields
- Becker’s Analog Body Electric
- Hunt and Schooler’s General Resonance Theory
- Miller’s Brain Waves’ Analog Organization of Cortex
- Singer and Melloni’s Large-Scale Synchrony
- Pockett's Conscious and Non-Conscious Patterns
- McFadden's Conscious Electromagnetic Information Theory
- Llinas's Mindness State of Oscillations
- Ephaptic Coupling
- Fingelkurts and Fingelkurts’s Operational Architectonics
- Lewis and MacGregor’s Phase of Energy Resonator Model
- Ambron's Local Field Potentials and Electromagnetic Waves
- Zhang's Long-Distance Light-Speed Telecommunications
- Computational Theories
- Turing’s Imitation, Machine Thought, and the Hidden Mind
- Putnam’s Machine Functionalism
- Blums’ Conscious Turing Machine
- Dennett's Multiple Drafts Model
- Minsky's Society of Mind
- Sejnowski’s Computational Two Tiers and Traveling Waves
- Agüera y Arcas’s Computational Functionalism
- Bostrom’s Computational Functionalism
- Grossberg's Adaptive Resonance Theory
- Malinkovic and Aru’s Biological Computationalism
- Jackendoff’s Intermediate-Level Cognitive Representations
- Complex Adaptive Systems Models
- Critical Brain Hypothesis
- Markwell’s Process Identity Theory
- Mikkilineni and Michaels’s Emergent Optimization Process
- Pribram's Holonomic Brain Theory
- O'Reilly-Shah's State Space Theory and Computational Dynamic Monism
- Awret’s Holographic Correspondence Theory of Consciousness
- Wang’s Layered Architecture and Cognitive Informatics
- Bitar’s Architectural Theory of Consciousness
- Mathematical Theories
- Freud's Surface Consciousness and Irreducible Affect
- Predictive Theories (Top-Down)
- Seth's "Beast Machine" Theory
- Damasio's Homeostatic Feelings and Emergence of Consciousness
- Panksepp’s Primal Affective Consciousness
- Friston's Free-Energy Principle and Active Inference
- Solms's Affect as the Hidden Spring of Consciousness
- Carhart-Harris's Entropic Brain Hypothesis
- Giannakopoulos’s Entropy-Resisting Amplifier of Persistence
- Entropic Theories
- Budson’s Consciousness as a Memory System
- Buzsáki's Neural Syntax and Self-Caused Rhythms
- Deacon's Self-Organized Constraint and Emergence of Self
- Pereira's Sentience
- Sebastian’s Predictive Machine
- Marchetti’s Attention-Based Theory
- Mansell's Perceptual Control Theory
- Projective Consciousness Model
- Pepperell's Organization of Energy
- Lakoff and Johnson’s Embodied Realism and Embodied Mind
- Enactivism
- Thompson's Mind in Life
- Frank/Gleiser/Thompson's "The Blind Spot"
- Gefter’s Enactive-QBist Engagement
- Shanahan’s Embodied Insights from Disembodied Minds
- Noë's "Out of Our Heads" Theory
- Froese’s Irruption Theory
- Hurley’s Sensorimotor Loops and Embodied Interaction
- Gibson's Ecological Psychology
- Vucolova’s Collapse into Translation
- Pretel-Wilson’s Human Systems Theory
- A. Clark's Extended Mind
- Hofstadter’s Strange Loops
- Tsuchiya's Relational Approach to Consciousness
- Loorits's Structural Realism
- McGinn’s Brain Perception
- Cooke’s Nondual Naturalism and Living Mirror Theory
- Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology
- J. Campbell’s Attention-Empowered Relationalism
- Fish’s Naïve Realism
- Mitchell and Jennings’s Consciousness Needs a Subject
- Manzotti’s Mind-Object Identity ("Spread Mind")
- Lahav's Relativistic Theory
- Kojdić’s Interface Ontology of Consciousness
- Jaworski's Hylomorphism
- Dretske’s Information and Representationalism
- Jackson's Representationalism and the Knowledge Argument
- Tye's Contingentism
- Carruthers’s First-Order Representationalism
- Hill's Representationalism: Qualia’s Appearance and Reality
- T. Clark's Content Hypothesis
- Transparency Thesis
- Direct Perception Theory
- Lamme's Recurrent Processing Theory
- Armstrong’s Higher-Order Perception Theory
- Rosenthal’s Higher-Order Thought
- Kriegel’s Cross-Order Self-Representation
- Ismael's Reflexive Representation and Situated Self
- Cleeremans’s Learned Consciousness via Radical Plasticity
- Lycan's Homuncular Functionalism
- Lau's Perceptual Reality Monitoring Theory
- LeDoux's Higher-Order Theory of Emotional Consciousness
- Humphrey's Mental Representations and Brain Attractors
- Metzinger's No-Self Representational Theory of Subjectivity
- Brown’s “HOROR” Higher-Order Representationalism
- Melnyk’s Realization Physicalism
- Thagard's Neural Representation, Binding, Coherence, Competition
- Deacon's Symbolic Communication (Human Consciousness)
- Chomsky's Language and Consciousness
- Searle's Language and Consciousness
- Quine's Linguistic Demotion of Phenomenal Consciousness
- Koch's Consciousness does not Depend on Language
- Smith's Language as Classifier of Consciousness
- Jaynes's Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
- Dewart’s Assertive Speech and Self-Presence
- Parrington's Language and Tool-Driven Consciousness
- Hickey’s Language and Consciousness
- Toomela’s Language-Mediated Structural-Systemic Theory
- Brand Deisler’s Linguistically Attributed Biographical Self and Conscious Action
- Fedotov's Communication Hypothesis of Consciousness
- Drabkin’s “Language” as Fundamental Expression
- Skopelitou’s Logos: Language Before Consciousness?
- Dennett's Evolution of Minds
- Godfrey-Smith’s Naturalist, Gradualist, Diversified Evolution of Consciousness
- Birch’s Comparative Sentience: Consciousness Profiles Across Diverse Minds
- LeDoux's Deep Roots of Consciousness
- Ginsburg and Jablonka's Associative Learning During Evolution
- Cleeremans and Tallon-Baudry's Functional Value
- Cabral-Calderin, Hechavarria, and Melloni’s Neuroethological Approach
- McGinn’s Living Consciousness
- Andrews's Consciousness Without Complex Brains
- Reber's Cellular Basis of Consciousness
- Feinberg and Mallatt's Ancient Origins of Consciousness
- Halligan and Oakley’s Species-Enhancing Epiphenomenalism
- Nichols’s Primal Eye
- Holmgren’s Grainy, Atomic Feels
- Sreedharan’s Affective Survival Theory
- No Hard Problem in William James's Psychology
Non-Reductive 13
- Ellis's Strong Emergence and Top-Down Causation
- Maxwell’s Unique-Matching Theory
- Murphy's Non-Reductive Physicalism
- van Inwagen's Christian Materialism and Resurrection of the Dead
- Sperry’s Mentalist Paradigm
- Azarian’s Self-Modeling Strange Loop Theory
- Nagasawa's Nontheoretical Physicalism
- Northoff's Non-Reductive Neurophilosophy
- Poznanski’s Processual Relational Geometry: Self-Intending Transscale Consciousness
- Montero’s Incomplete Post-Physicalism
- Cai and Cai’s Canxian
- Sanfey's Abstract Realism
- Herath's State-Space Selection and the Sentience Factor
Quantum & Dimensions 31
- Wigner–von Neumann’s Consciousness-Collapse: Experience at the Quantum Cut
- Penrose-Hameroff's Orchestrated Objective Reduction
- Hameroff’s Consciousness Came Before Life
- Neven's Quantum Superposition Formation
- Stapp's Collapsing the Wave Function via Asking "Questions"
- Bohm's Implicate-Explicate Order
- Chalmers and McQueen’s Quantum Collapse
- Wolfram's Consciousness in the Ruliad
- Faggin's Quantum Information-based Panpsychism
- Kauffman's Mind Mediating Possibles to Actuals
- Carr's Quantum Theory, Psi, Mental Space
- Smolin's Causal Theory of Views
- Pylkkänen's Quantum Potential Energy and Active Information
- Keppler’s Zero-Point Field
- Strømme’s Universal Consciousness as Foundational Field
- Beck-Eccles's Quantum Processes in the Synapse
- Fisher's Quantum Cognition
- Rourk’s Catecholaminergic Neuron Electron Transport Theory
- Cavelier's Entangled Spins at the NMDA Receptor
- Shiah’s Cryptochrome Theory
- Torday's Cellular and Cosmic Consciousness
- Globus's Quantum Thermofield Brain Dynamics
- Poznanski's Dynamic Organicity Theory
- Gambini and Pullin’s Quantum Panprotopsychism
- King’s Symbiotic Existential Cosmology
- Pacheco’s Science of Unity
- Tozzi’s Multidimensional Brain
- Morrison’s Position Selecting Interactionism
- Van Dusen’s Hyperspatial Dimension Theory
- QBism’s Primitive, Participatory Experience: Quantum Agency and the First-Person World
- Rovelli's Relationship Physics
Information 13
- Integrated Information Theory
- Critiques of Integrated Information Theory
- Koch Compares Integrated Information Theory with Panpsychism
- Chalmers’s Double-Aspect Theory of Information
- Davies’s Hidden Web of Information
- Levin’s Ingressing Minds from Platonic Space
- Hoel’s Causal Emergence
- Doyle's Experience Recorder and Reproducer
- Langan's Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe
- Boyd’s Emergent Information Theory
- Resch’s Platonic Functionalism
- Safron’s Integrated World Modeling Theory
- Moll’s Multitrack Consciousness Conjecture
Panpsychism 18
- Micropsychism
- Panprotopsychism
- Cosmopsychism
- Qualia Force
- Qualia Space
- Chalmers's Panpsychism
- Strawson's Panpsychism
- Goff's Panpsychism
- Tye’s Irreducible Consciousness
- Mørch's Phenomenal-Causal Powers Panpsychism
- Schneider and Bailey’s Entangled Superpsychism
- Coleman’s Panqualityism
- Kadić's Monadic Panpsychism
- A. Harris's Panpsychism as Fundamental Field
- Sheldrake's Self-Organizing Systems at all Levels of Complexity
- Wallace's Panpsychism Inside Physics
- Whitehead's Process Theory
- Starrett’s Radical Panpsychism
Neutral Monism 17
- Spinoza’s One Reality: Embodied Mind and Graded Consciousness
- Leibniz's Monads
- James’s Radical Empiricism of Monistic Pure Experience
- Whitehead's Experience is Fundamental, Consciousness is Not
- Russellian Monism
- Davidson's Anomalous Monism
- Velmans's Reflexive Monism
- Strawson's Realistic Monism and Real Materialism
- Polkinghorne's Dual-Aspect Monism
- Teilhard de Chardin's Evolving Consciousness
- Pauli’s One World, Two Aspects: Psychophysical Complementarity
- Atmanspacher's Dual-Aspect Monism
- Pereira’s Triple-Aspect Monism
- Ramachandran's New Physics and Neuroscience
- Tegmark's State of Matter
- QRI's State-Space, Qualia Formalism, Valence Realism
- Leslie's Consciousness Inside an Infinite Mind
Dualism 39
- Historical and Traditional Dualisms
- Sāṃkhya's Pure Witness and the Material Mind
- Nyāya’s Contingent Consciousness of the Enduring Self
- Aristotle’s Hylomorphism
- Avicenna’s Flying Man and Self-Present Soul
- Aquinas’s Hylomorphism
- Descartes’s Substance Dualism
- Malebranche’s Divine Occasionalism: Inner Sensation and Phenomenal Experience
- Bergson's Multiplicity, Duration, Perception, Memory
- Property Dualism
- Epiphenomenalism
- Swinburne's Substance Dualism
- Composite Dualism
- Stump's Thomistic Dualism
- Feser's Neo-Thomistic, Neo-Aristotelian, Common-Sense Dualism
- Moreland's Christian Soul
- Interactive Dualism
- Popper and Eccles's Interactionist Dualism: Three Worlds and the Liaison Brain
- Pitts’s Interactionist Dualism: Energy Conservation and Mental Causation
- Chalmers’s Naturalistic Dualism
- Libet's Conscious Mental Field
- Emergent Dualism
- Hasker's Unified Experience, Conscious Self, Causal Mind Requires a Brain-Generated Nonphysical Substance
- Kind's Dualism 2.0
- Nida-Rümelin’s Subject-Body Dualism
- Mascari’s Qualion-Mind Paradigm
- Soul in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish Philosophy
- Soul in the New Testament and Christian Philosophy
- Soul in Islamic Philosophy
- God as the Supplier of Souls
- Indian Personal Consciousness: Plural Selves and Real Matter
- Gomatam’s GV Vedanta Consciousness
- Soul in Indigenous Religions
- Trialism
- Realms of the Soul
- Theosophy's Eclectic Soul and Consciousness
- Steiner's Esoteric Soul and Consciousness
- Lorber’s Soul and Spirit
- Nonphysical Component in the Human Mind
Idealism 42
- Indian Cosmic Consciousness
- Śaṅkara's Self-Luminous Nondualism
- Sri Ramana’s Self as Pure Consciousness
- Sri Aurobindo’s Evolving Consciousness
- Sarkar’s Infinite Supreme Consciousness
- Kashmir Shaivism’s Dynamic Non-Dualism
- Bhartṛhari’s Linguistic Idealism
- Buddhism's Empty, Illusory Phenomenal Consciousness
- Nāgārjuna’s Empty Consciousness: Experience Without Essence
- Yogācāra's Mind-Only: How Store Consciousness Makes Experience Cohere Without External Objects
- Dao De Jing's Constant Dao
- Kant’s Transcendental Idealism
- Fichte’s Self-Positing I
- Schelling’s Nature, Spirit, and the Identity of Mind
- Hegel’s Dialectical Consciousness in the Development of Spirit
- Schopenhauer’s The World as Will
- Berkeley’s Immaterialist Idealism
- Bradley’s Absolute Idealism
- Sprigge’s Absolute Idealism
- Kastrup's Analytic Idealism
- Hoffman's Conscious Realism: The Case Against Reality
- McGilchrist's Relational, Creative-Process Idealism
- Bentley Hart's Monism: Consciousness, Being, God
- Chopra's Only the Whole is Conscious
- How Consciousness Becomes the Physical Universe
- Theise’s and Kafatos’s Fundamental Awareness and Complexity
- Kak’s Universal Consciousness
- Goswami's Self-Aware Universe
- Spira's Non-Duality
- Nader's All There Is
- Ward's Personal Idealism: Souls as Embodied Agents Created by God
- Albahari's Perennial Idealism
- Builes’s Modal Idealism
- Yetter-Chappell’s Non-Theistic Idealism
- Arendsen’s Complex Idealism
- Richheimer’s Ground Substance of Creation
- Meijer's Universal Knowledge Field
- Samarawickrama’s Fundamental, Frequency-Bearing Field
- Vișan’s Self-Reference
- Pulido-Moyano’s Consciousness Endomitosis Theory
- Forrest’s Intelligent Idealism
- Shen’s Generative Principle of Physical Reality
Phenomenology 22
- Peirce’s Phaneroscopic Semiotics
- James’s Stream of Thought/Consciousness
- Brentano’s Intentionality and Self-Awareness
- Husserl’s Transcendental Phenomenology
- Meinong's Self-Presenting Experience
- Gurwitsch’s Structured Field of Experience
- Heidegger’s Dasein (Being-In-The-World) Without Qualia
- Sartre’s Pre-reflective Consciousness as For-Itself
- Merleau-Ponty's Embodied Perception and the Lived Body
- Henry’s Auto-Affective Self-Revelation of Life
- Zahavi’s Pre-Reflective For-Me-Ness
- D.W. Smith’s Three-Facet Ontological Phenomenology
- Varela's Neurophenomenology
- Thompson's Phenomenology: Waking, Dreaming, Sleeping, Pure Awareness
- Krishnamurti's Consciousness Is Its Content
- Winkelman's Integrative Mode of Neurognostic Structures
- Bitbol's Radical Neurophenomenology
- Gallagher’s Embodied Self and Interactive Consciousness
- Petitmengin’s Micro-Phenomenology
- Shanon's Cartography and Structured Spectrum
- Derrida’s Deconstruction of Self-Presence
- Dennett’s Heterophenomenology
Anomalous 33
- James's Plural Consciousness, Brain as Filter of a Wider Consciousness
- Broad’s Emergent Mind and Psychic/Psi Factors
- Huxley’s Mind-At-Large Filter Theory
- Jung's Collective Unconscious and Synchronicity
- Radin's Challenge to Materialism
- Tart's Emergent Interactionism
- Mishlove’s Beyond-The-Brain Filtered, Survival Consciousness
- Schlitz’s Theory of Mind
- Josephson's Psi-Informed Models
- Gebser's Ever-Present Origin: How Space, Time, and Self Change Shape Across Mutations of Consciousness
- Wilber's Integral Theory
- Combs's Chaotic Attractor and Autopoietic Systems
- Ferrer’s Participatory Enactive Realism
- Schooler's Resonance Theory and Subjective Time
- Sheldrake's Morphic Fields
- Barušs’s Meaning Fields
- Grinberg's Syntergic/Neuronal Field Theory
- Near Death Experiences, Survival, Past Lives
- DOPS's Consciousness Research and Theory
- Shiah’s Contentless Consciousness Theory
- Bitbol's Phenomenological Ontology
- Campbell's Theory of Everything
- Mossbridge’s Informational Substrate as Collective Unconscious
- Hiller's Eternal Discarnate Consciousness
- Swimme's Cosmogenesis
- Khasho’s NDE-Enabled Field-Substrate Translation Model
- Graboi's Three-Aspect Model
- Noël’s Nested Field Theory
- Harp's Universal or God Consciousness
- Johnson and Debold’s Urantia Theocosmic Cosmopsychism
- Hobson’s Dreaming Protoconsciousness
- Meditation and the Brain
- Psychedelic Theories of Consciousness
Challenge 29
- Nagel's Mind and Cosmos
- McGinn's Ultimate Mystery (Mysterianism)
- Fodor's Principled Abstention: Intentionality Bracketing Phenomenality
- Tallis's Anti-Neuromania Skepticism
- Wittgenstein's Grammatical Fiction
- Hacker’s Skepticism
- Schwitzgebel's Unreliable Introspection, Indeterminate Boundaries, Metaphysical Humility
- Pinker’s Naturalism
- Eagleman's Possibilianism
- Shermer’s Known Unknown…and Possibly Unknowable
- S. Harris's Mystery of Consciousness
- Gabriel’s New Realism and Field of Sense
- Conway Morris's Convergent Sentience Beyond Materialism
- Levin's Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere
- Nagasawa's Mind-Body in an Infinitely Decomposable Universe
- Zuboff’s Universalism
- Cohen’s Ultra-Fine-Tuned Personal Consciousness
- Musser's "Is It Really So Hard?"
- Reason's No-Go Theorem against Materialism/Supervenience
- Owen’s Mind-Body Powers: NCC are Philosophically and Religiously Neutral
- Champagne’s Semiotic Account
- Merriam’s Calculus of Qualia as Logical Primitives
- Delaflor's Model Dependent Ontology
- Akselrud's Explanatory Faculty: Consciousness as Internalized Explanation
- Hartford’s Eternal Conjecture
- Raman’s Cosmic Significance
- Davies's Consciousness in the Cosmos
- CROW’s Funhouse of Consciousness
- Siler's Art of Consciousness
FAQ
What is phenomenal consciousness?
Phenomenal consciousness refers to subjective experience - the qualitative feel of being aware, like the taste of coffee or the redness of red.
How many theories does the Atlas include?
The Atlas visualizes more than 450 individual theories, grouped into eleven broad categories.
Does the Atlas show which theory is true?
No. The Atlas presents theories neutrally. It is a map, not an argument for any single position.
Is the Atlas academic?
The Atlas is based on an academic source - Robert Kuhn's 2024 paper, "A Landscape of Consciousness" - and links to canonical sources where available.
Summary
The Consciousness Atlas is a straightforward visualization tool: it presents Kuhn's taxonomy as a single, explorable map and lets users open individual theory entries to read structured, referenced summaries. It is designed to make this complex field easier to survey and to serve as a practical reference.