The Hard Problem by Jesse Winters

Key References: Steven Pinker 'The Blank Slate' 2003 Jeff Hawkins 'A Thousand Brains' 2021

Key References: 'The Essential Schopenhauer' edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher, 2010 Michael Pollan 'How to Change Your Mind' 2018 Marcus Raichle 'The Brain's Default Mode Network' 2015

Key References: 'The Essential Schopenhauer' edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher, 2010

Key References: Sam Harris 'Waking Up' 2015 Carl Rogers 'On Becoming a Person' 1967

Key References: A.C. Grayling 'A History of Philosophy' 2019 'The Upanishads' translated by Swami Paramananda 1919 Sam Harris 'Waking Up' 2014

Key References: Pelin Kesebir 'A Quiet Ego Quiets Death Anxiety: Humility as an Existential Anxiety Buffer' 2014 Roland Griffiths et al. 'Psilocybin Produces Substantial and sustained Decreases in Depression and Anxiety in Patients with Life-threatening Cancer: A Randomized Double-blind Trial' 2016 Michael Pollan 'How to Change Your Mind' 2018

Key References: Gilbert Ryle 'The Concept of Mind' 1949 Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Metazoa' 2020 Frank Wilczek 'Fundamentals' 2021

Key References: Daniel Dennett 'Quining Qualia' 1988

Key References Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Metazoa' 2020 Julia Groening, Dustin Venini, and Mandyam Srinivasan 'In Search of Evidence for the Experience of Pain in Honeybees: A Self-Administration Study' 2017

Key References: Colin Hales and Marissa Ericson 'Electromagnetism's Bridge Across the Explanatory Gap: How a Neuroscience/Physics Collaboration Delivers Explanation into All Theories of Consciousness' 2022

Key References: Nico Grant and Cade Metz 'Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims its AI is Sentient' New York Times 2022 Nils Nilsson 'The Quest for Artificial Intelligence' 2010 Mary Papenfuss 'Google Engineer on Leave after He Claims AI Program has gone Sentient' Huffington Post 2022 John Searle 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 1997

Key References: Michael Gazzaniga 'Tales from Both Sides of the Brain' 2015 Giulio Avvenuti et al. 'Integrity of Corpus Callosum for the Cross-Hemispheric Propagation of Sleep Slow Waves: A High-Density EEG Study in Split-Brain Patients' 2020

Key References: Aldous Huxley 'The Doors of Perception' 1954 Shitij Kapur 'Psychosis as a State of Aberrant Salience: A Framework Linking Biology, Phenomenology, and Pharmacology in Schizophrenia' 2003

Key References: Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Metazoa' 2020

Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Metazoa' 2020 John Searle 'Consciousness' 2000

Key References: Matthew Lieberman 'Boo! The Consciousness Problem in Emotion' 2018

Key References: Aldous Huxley 'The Doors of Perception' 1954

Key References: Thurston Lacalli 'Consciousness as a Product of Evolution: Contents, Selector Circuits, and Trajectories in Experience Space' 2021

Key References: Tam Hunt, Marissa Ericson, and Jonathan Schooler 'Where's my Consciousness-Ometer: How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness' 2022 Daniel Dennett 'From Bacteria to Bach and Back' 2017 Jordan Ellenberg 'How Not to Be Wrong' 2014

Key References: Tam Hunt, Marissa Ericson, and Jonathan Schooler 'Where's my Consciousness-Ometer: How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness' 2022  

Key References: Jean Piaget 'The Moral Judgement of the Child' 1932 Friedrich Nietzsche 'Beyond Good and Evil' 1886

Key References: John Stuart Mill 'On Liberty' 1869 Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic 'Critical Race Theory: An Introduction' 2001 Christian Fuchs 'Critical Theory' 2015 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 'The Gulag Archipelago' 1973  

Key References: Robert Friedel 'Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified' 2018 Micah Johnson 'How Responsible are Killers with Brain Damage' 2018

Key References: Jessie Sun, Scott Barry Kaufman, and Luke Smillie 'Unique Associations Between Big Five Personality Aspects and Multiple Dimension of Well-Being' 2016

Key References: Rene Descartes 'A Discourse on Method' 1637