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Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf](gwern.net)
18 points by zahrevsky | 3 comments
PDF of Greg Egan's science fiction short story "Learning to Be Me," about a brain-implanted jewel that learns to imitate its host's mind.
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8 stories tagged consciousness, newest first.
Blindsight (Watts Novel)(en.wikipedia.org)
90 points by mooreds | 100 comments
Wikipedia article on Blindsight, Peter Watts's 2006 hard science fiction novel about astronauts investigating an alien signal and themes of consciousness.
Haunted by the ghosts of materialism(blog.coredump.cx)
15 points by surprisetalk | 3 comments
An essay on lcamtuf's Substack blog examining philosophy, materialism, and arguments about the mind and perception.
Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music(journals.plos.org)
500 points by gnabgib | 269 comments
PLOS One open-access research article on the neurobiological basis of altered states of consciousness induced by high ventilation breathwork with music.
Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)(scentofdawn.blogspot.com)
639 points by ahiknsr | 277 comments
Blog post excerpting Helen Keller's 1908 book The World I Live In, describing her life before she acquired language and self-consciousness.
Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)(philosophygeek.medium.com)
326 points by drcwpl | 238 comments
A Medium essay by Mark Johnson explaining why Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in his life.
They're Made Out of Meat (1991)(mit.edu)
362 points by mailarchis | 122 comments
The full text of Terry Bisson's 1991 short science fiction story in which aliens are amazed to discover that humans are sentient beings made of meat.
Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics(qri.org)
561 points by robinhouston | 252 comments
Qualia Research Institute blog post announcing a contest to create 'psychedelic cryptography': messages decodable only in non-ordinary states of consciousness.