August 2024 Blog
A Landscape of Consciousness Robert Lawrence Kuhn “Explanations of consciousness abound and the radical diversity of theories is telling. Explanations, or theories, are said to work at astonishingly divergent orders of magnitude and putative realms of reality.” That’s how I begin “A Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a “Taxonomy of Explanations and Implications” [“Landscape”] — my review of theories of consciousness published in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology (Volume 190, August 2024, Pages 28-169). The print PDF can be viewed or downloaded on the ScienceDirect page, upper left, Open Access — though online easier to read and navigate. Landscape is the product of a lifetime. My PhD was in neurophysiology at UCLA’s Brain Research Institute (1968). I am creator and host of Closer To Truth, the long-running (25