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Welcome! This is an experiment, a shared notepad on mathematical topics in the scientific study of consciousness.

Much like our idol, the nLab, the idea is that this wiki offers a space for us to share notes, thoughts, definitions and ideas. It is dedicated primarily to formal/mathematical topics in the scientific study of consciousness, but topics from philosophy, neuroscience and other disciplines are very welcome as well. In the beginning stages of this experiment, we explicit encourage people to submit summaries of their own scientific work on the topic.

Goals

This wiki's overall goal is to catalyse exchange between researchers who are working on mathematical approaches in the scientific study of consciousness, and to help make good science possible. The hope is that it can be both a resource for information concerning formal approaches, but also a place where ideas can be exchanged. It's basically just a big community notebook.

Here are a few examples of the kind of posts that are very welcome:

• Posts on concepts that are used in the scientific study of consciousness, which summarize parts of the literature, collect various conceptions or say something on how something could best be formalized.
• Posts which review the essential formal structure of existing theories of consciousness.
• Posts which outline research projects that are being carried out.

Guidelines

For now, we think the only guidelines should be the usual friendliness, an open-minded atmosphere and, most of all, the dedication to high scientific quality. Your contributions don't have to be perfect. -- In fact, the nice thing about community projects is that others might add to your initial notes, improving your presentation and clarifying the concepts. -- But we want to emphasize that the wiki is not open to low-quality content.

If there is an issue or conflict (somebody makes a change to a page you don't agree with), click on the "Discussion" tab at the top of the page and explain your objections. Please also don't forget to provide summaries of your changes to a page in the corresponding field.

Also, we'd like to emphasize that the wiki shouldn't be a place where people "sell" their own work. You're very much invited to create summaries of your work and references in pages to which it is important, but that should be with the usual reasonable limits.

If there is an excessive violation of guidelines from some account, it might have to be deactivated.

How to join

For now, everybody with at least 5 published papers (any discipline) is invited to join this wiki. To do so, simply send an email to seminar at math-consciousness dot org, and we'll provide access codes to you.

In case you're a PhD student, you're welcome to join as well. Please send us an email and include your affiliation and a short summary of your research project.

Existing entries

Here is an automated list of existing entries in this wiki. You can also check the Special:RecentChanges page to see recent modifications. And you can click on the tiny star right next to the "edit" button to watch a page, i.e. to get notifications in case it is being changed. To create a new page, simply type the name into the search bar above and click on the name to create the page.

• Attention
• Awareness
• Chalmers' Axiomatization
• Cognition
• Conscious Experience
• Consciousness
• Eliminativism
• Expected Float Entropy Minimisation
• Experience Spaces
• Explanatory Gap
• IIT 4.0
• Illusionism
• Introspection
• Main Authors
• Main Page
• Mathematical Consciousness Science
• Models vs. Theories of Consciousness
• Neurophenomenology
• Phenomenal Character
• Phenomenal Concepts
• Phenomenal Consciousness
• Phenomenal Property
• Phenomenological Methods
• Qualia
• Qualia Space
• Qualitative Character
• Qualities
• Quality Spaces
• Sensation
• Sensory Qualities
• What it is like to be

A list of users can be found here.

Issues

In case you experience any technical issues, please send us an email (cf. above) and/or click "edit" and add it to the list below.

• Does anyone experience cases where "session data is lost" or where they are being logged out spontaneously?