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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Fusions of Consciousness.

Donald D Hoffman, Chetan Prakash, Robert Prentner

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. FurtherFrontiers in computational neuroscience · 2025
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  3. Interfacing consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Donald D HoffmanDepartment of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Chetan PrakashDepartment of Mathematics, California State University, San Bernadino, CA 92407, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9931-7814
Robert PrentnerAssociation for Mathematical Consciousness Science, D-80539 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1890-0827

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

What are conscious experiences? Can they combine to form new experiences? What are conscious subjects? Can they combine to form new subjects? Most attempts to answer these questions assume that spacetime, and some of its particles, are fundamental. However, physicists tell us that spacetime cannot be fundamental. Spacetime, they say, is doomed. We heed the physicists, and drop the assumption that spacetime is fundamental. We assume instead that subjects and experiences are entities beyond spacetime, not within spacetime. We make this precise in a mathematical theory of

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amplituhedroncombination problemconscious agentsconsciousnessdecorated permutationsfusion simplexhard problem of consciousnessinterface theory of perceptionMarkov chainsMarkov polytopespanpsychismpositive Grassmannianqualiasubjective experience

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PMID36673270
PMCPMC9858210

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