# Seed Bibliography

This is not a complete bibliography. It is the spine for the research-paper version.

## Consciousness / hard problem

- Chalmers, David J. “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness.” *Journal of Consciousness Studies* 2(3):200–219, 1995. https://consc.net/papers/facing.pdf
- Nagel, Thomas. “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” *The Philosophical Review* 83(4):435–450, 1974.
- Dennett, Daniel C. “Facing Up to the Hard Question of Consciousness.” *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B*, 2018.
- Frankish, Keith. “Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness.” *Journal of Consciousness Studies*, 2016.

## Self-model and phenomenology

- Metzinger, Thomas. *Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity*. MIT Press, 2003. https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/1991/Being-No-OneThe-Self-Model-Theory-of-Subjectivity
- Varela, Francisco J. “Neurophenomenology: A Methodological Remedy for the Hard Problem.” *Journal of Consciousness Studies* 3(4):330–349, 1996. https://philpapers.org/rec/VARNAM
- Thompson, Evan. *Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy*. Columbia University Press, 2014.

## Predictive processing / active inference

- Friston, Karl. “The Free-Energy Principle: A Unified Brain Theory?” *Nature Reviews Neuroscience* 11:127–138, 2010.
- Clark, Andy. “Whatever Next? Predictive Brains, Situated Agents, and the Future of Cognitive Science.” *Behavioral and Brain Sciences* 36(3):181–204, 2013. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23663408/
- Seth, Anil K. “Interoceptive Inference, Emotion, and the Embodied Self.” *Trends in Cognitive Sciences* 17(11):565–573, 2013.

## Contemplative science / nondual awareness

- Josipovic, Zoran. “Neural Correlates of Nondual Awareness in Meditation.” *Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences*, 2014. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24033505/
- Timmermann et al. “Neural Effects and Phenomenology of Nondual Meditation and 5-MeO-DMT in an Expert Meditation Practitioner.” Preprint, 2025.
- Dōgen. “Uji” / “Being-Time,” in *Shōbōgenzō*.
- Ramana Maharshi. *Who Am I?* https://www.gururamana.org/Resources/Books/Who_Am_I_English.pdf
- Nisargadatta Maharaj. *I Am That*. 1973.

## Spacetime / physics / structural realism

- Rovelli, Carlo. “Relational Quantum Mechanics.” *International Journal of Theoretical Physics* 35:1637–1678, 1996.
- Bombelli, Luca; Lee, Joohan; Meyer, David; Sorkin, Rafael. “Space-Time as a Causal Set.” *Physical Review Letters* 59:521–524, 1987. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.521
- Verlinde, Erik. “On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton.” *Journal of High Energy Physics* 2011(4):029, 2011.
- Baron, Sam. “The Curious Case of Spacetime Emergence.” 2020. https://philpapers.org/rec/BARTCC-15
- Ladyman, James and Ross, Don. *Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized*. Oxford University Press, 2007.
- French, Steven. *The Structure of the World: Metaphysics and Representation*. Oxford University Press, 2014.

## AI consciousness / AI welfare

- Butlin, Patrick et al. “Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness.” arXiv:2308.08708, 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708
- Chalmers, David J. “Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?” 2023.
- Cogitate Consortium. “Adversarial Testing of Global Neuronal Workspace and Integrated Information Theories of Consciousness.” *Nature* 642:133–142, 2025. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08888-1

## Publication / preprint surfaces

- PhilArchive: https://philarchive.org/
- PhilSci-Archive: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
- OSF Preprints FAQ: https://help.osf.io/article/230-preprint-faqs
- arXiv CS practice update for review and position papers: https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/