Rigorous independent inquiry into the nature of consciousness and experience.
Rigorous independent inquiry into the nature of consciousness and experience.
Progress on consciousness has been hindered by the absence of agreed-upon criteria for success. We derive those criteria — logical consequences of the bare fact that experience exists — and apply them diagnostically to every major framework.
From the single undeniable premise that experience exists, we derive nine constraints any viable theory must satisfy. Not hypotheses. Not assumptions. Logical necessities.
We apply these constraints to every major framework in the philosophy of mind. The results are decisive: most fail not from empirical shortcomings but from structural incapacities.
Through monographs, journal articles, and in-depth analyses, we make this work available to philosophers, scientists, and anyone willing to think seriously about what consciousness requires.
Every challenge to our work receives a written response, and every exchange is published in full — the initial objection, our rebuttal, and any subsequent rounds. No cherry-picking. No silent dismissals. If the reasoning holds, it should hold in public.
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