On the Computational Necessity of Consciousness
This paper argues that phenomenal consciousness is not an optional add-on to cognition, but a necessary condition for certain recursive mental processes involving perception-like intermediate states.
Philosophical Research
Philosophical research on the concepts behind intelligence and experience: meaning, understanding, consciousness, agency, and the relation between artificial and natural cognition.
On the Possibility of a Unified Science of the Mind
This paper argues that a unified science of mind is possible only if conscious determinacy can be reconstructed both from the first-person perspective and from third-person cognitive explanation.
Structuration
This project studies structuration as the process by which meaning, agency, and cognition become organized through stable but revisable structures.