Research into physical realization, physicalism’s varieties, and which empirical findings distinguish physicalist and experiential interpretations.
A falsifiable, substrate-agnostic research programme for consciousness, comparing organizational and thermodynamic hypotheses with rival theories through formal tests, empirical predictions, and explicit revision conditions.
Michael Levin’s dismissal of AI-assisted criticism offers no named logical errors or evidence. This analysis identifies the specific claims, fallacies, and unanswered objections.
What xenobot experiments actually establish, what independent studies corroborate, and why novel biological behavior does not by itself refute physicalism.
What explanatory work remains for Whitehead’s evolving God after causal history, physiological organization, and naturalistic alternatives are taken seriously?
The phenomenal datum remains. This analysis asks whether the Hard Problem is one indivisible challenge or several distinguishable research questions with different tests.
A critical self-audit of Thermodynamic Monism: what follows from thermodynamic constraints, what remains metaphysical conjecture, and which claims need revision.
What my framework implies for Matthew David Segall’s bifurcation argument
How deductive proofs against Panexperientialism establish machine moral relevance and direct standing without first settling machine consciousness.
What Erik Svensson, Massimo Pigliucci, and Matthew David Segall reveal about the evidence for physicalism, the residual case for panexperientialism, and what each would have to do to progress.
Assessing Chalmers’s later work, competing accounts of consciousness, and whether claims about phenomenal experience generate discriminating predictions.