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Core Concepts

The five ideas the entire theory rests on.

If you read nothing else, read these. Together they are the foundation of every other idea in the book.

Structure → Consciousness THE PRODUCTION CHAIN From Structure to Consciousness The mainstream view in neuroscience Structure arrangement of matter in your brain + Functioning dynamic activity of those parts ⇒ Consciousness your subjective experience The same recipe produces the same dish — regardless of which atoms you cook with.
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Ixperiencitness

The quality of subjective experience that makes it yours. Coined from "I experience it" plus the suffix "-ness." This is the central new word the theory introduces.

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Awarepath

The complete sequence of conscious experiences produced by a body over its lifetime. Your subjective life seen from the inside, treated as a single object.

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Structure and functioning

The complete physical organization of a system (structure) together with its dynamic activity (functioning). The book's claim is that consciousness is produced by structure and functioning, not by spe

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Consciousness

Your inner experience of being a particular body: what it is like to be you. The book treats consciousness as something brain structure produces, not as a separate kind of thing.

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Superimmortality

The theory's central claim: your ixperiencitness will be produced again and again by different physical systems across space and time. Stronger than ordinary immortality, because it includes enhanced

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