Claims

The brain is in constant communication with the external world, and the boundaries between self, world, and other people are not as solid or firm as they appear in subjective experience, particularly when experiencing the illusion of a static self.

A bacterium likely has much higher integrated information (phi) than a modern AI system like ChatGPT despite appearing far less intelligent, because bacteria have complex chemical signaling and metabolic integration whereas AI systems are designed with low integration to keep them manageable.

I achieved a functional understanding of consciousness that I never intended to seek—I was forced into it by being honest about my models and by the models' explanatory power, discovering that consciousness and related processes emerge from adaptive resonances that support learning, attention, and prediction.

Your brain creates a simulation through which you interact with the world—not a true simulation but a constructed interface designed to keep you alive rather than represent reality faithfully, and understanding this allows you to reinterpret that package in ways advantageous to you.