Topic Hub
Paths
How to track a conscious life through time.
A path is the trace of a body, a brain, or an experience over time. The theory uses several path types because a conscious life has several aspects to track: physical structure, neural activity, sensory input, subjective experience.
Concepts in this Hub
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.
PathsPhysapath
The physical path of a body, restricted to the properties that actually produce consciousness. A subset of the fuller physipath.
PathsPhysipath
The complete physical path of a body. Every physical state it passes through, including states that do not contribute to consciousness.
PathsMentapath
The mental-process path of a body. The sequence of mental functions over time: the mental side of what produces an awarepath.
PathsSensepath
The complete sequence of sensory stimulations that affect a body over its lifetime. What your senses delivered to you, from birth to now.
PathsIxpepath
The path your ixperiencitness takes over time. Tracks how the you-ness produced by a body changes across its lifetime as the body itself changes.
Where this Shows Up in the Book
- Chapter 4. You Are Not Your Atoms
- Chapter 6. Your Brain Is Already Proving The Theory
- Chapter 7. The Awarepath: Your Conscious Lifetime
- Chapter 26. Convergence And Divergence: How Conscious Paths Split And Merge
Go all the way
The book treats paths in full, including the moves and counter-moves this site only sketches.