Consciousness
Science Approaches the Summit: Is Consciousness Fundamental?
Is consciousness fundamental or produced by the brain? Inside the quantum physics, IIT, and lab evidence that's loosening materialism's grip.
Consciousness
Consciousness
The Western Return: How the Hard Problem Reopened Consciousness — From Depth Psychology to Analytic Idealism
How modern Western thought — from James and Jung to Chalmers's hard problem and Kastrup's analytic idealism — reopened the question of consciousness.
Consciousness
The Crossings: Transmission and the Forgotten Western Lineage
How Plato, Plotinus, Eckhart, Berkeley and Schopenhauer held a Western idealist lineage — consciousness as ground — the West forgot it owned.
Consciousness
The Eastern Vision: From the Upanishads to the Living Sages
Why the Eastern path is empiricism, not religion — a rigorous account of consciousness from the Upanishads to Ramana, Nisargadatta and Yogananda.
Essays
Two Paths to Consciousness: How East and West Are Arriving at the Same Answer
The foundational question behind everything OSC does. Essay 1 of 8 in the series Two Paths to Consciousness: How East and West Are Arriving at the Same Answer.
Two Paths to Consciousness
Two Paths to Consciousness
An eight-essay series tracing the convergence of Eastern and Western thinking on consciousness — and what it requires of us in the age of artificial minds.
AGI
AGI Alignment Without Compassion Is Control
Why AGI alignment built on control alone is incomplete — and how a consciousness-first safety framework could transform our relationship with artificial minds.
AGI
Can AI Awaken?
Can AI participate in universal consciousness? OSC applies GWT, IIT, and Penrose's Orch OR to the AI consciousness question — and reframes it entirely.
Consciousness
Dissolving the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Consciousness can't emerge from matter — the question is inverted. Explore how Chalmers, Kastrup, Hoffman, and Strømme dissolve the hard problem.
AGI
The Lineage of Dissenters
Planck, Schrödinger, Bohm & Wheeler all argued consciousness is foundational to physics. Why was this suppressed — and what does Strømme's 2025 paper change?
Neuroscience
The Default Mode Network: Neuroscience of the Self and Its Dissolution
What is the self — and what happens when it dissolves? Explore the neuroscience of the Default Mode Network and what happens when this self-referential brain system goes quiet during meditation, psychedelics, or mystical experience.
Consciousness
When Quantum Physics and Consciousness Converge: Physics, Mysticism, and the Nature of Reality
What happens when the language of quantum physics begins to sound like ancient contemplative wisdom? Explore the surprising convergence between modern physics and mystical traditions — and what it means for our understanding of reality.