Theories of consciousness: 21st century
List of theories whose epoch is 21st century. They are part of the wider catalogue of 222 theories of consciousness. You can also see the interactive graph or switch facet:
59 theories classified under “21st century”.
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- Active inference and artificial agents
- Amerindian perspectivism
- Analytic idealism
- Artificial consciousness and superintelligence
- Attention as schematic model in AI
- Attention schema theory
- Baars-Dehaene integrated stage theory
- Brain as active predictor theory
- CLARION architecture
- Claustrum as the seat of consciousness
- Cognition as quantum computation (Penrose applied to AI)
- Computational universe
- Conscious Turing Machine
- Consciousness and Bengio's System 2 architectures
- Consciousness as interface (Hoffman)
- Consciousness in octopuses and invertebrates
- Contemporary panpsychism
- Cosmopsychism
- Damasio's self theory
- Debate on consciousness in LLMs
- Default mode network and consciousness
- Dendritic integration and apical amplification
- Electromagnetic field theory of consciousness
- Embodied consciousness and the affective turn
- Embodied simulation
- Entropic brain
- Extended Mind
- Free energy principle
- Gender, performativity and consciousness
- Global neuronal workspace (GNW)
- Graph-dynamic theory of consciousness
- Integrated information theory
- LIDA and the conscious cognitive cycle
- Local-global processing theory
- Machine consciousness (Aleksander, Holland)
- Neurorepresentationalism
- Pachamama and indigenous deep ecology
- Polyvagal theory
- Positive psychology
- Predictive processing
- QBism
- REBUS (psychedelics)
- Recurrent processing theory
- Russellian monism
- Science of psychedelics
- Scientific mindfulness
- Scientific research on meditation
- Self-model theory (PSM)
- Self-representationalism
- Simulation hypothesis
- Social neuroscience and mirror neurons
- SOMA: self-organising metarepresentational account (Cleeremans)
- Subcortical and affective brainstem consciousness
- System 1 / System 2
- Temporo-spatial theory of consciousness (TTC)
- The Master and his Emissary argument
- Ubuntu and the person-in-community
- Unlimited associative learning (UAL)
- Wilber's integral model