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The Simulation You Call “I”: The Architecture of Consciousness, Computation, and the Cosmos - Softcover
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You are a simulation.
Not a metaphor. Not a philosophical thought experiment. A literal, running simulation, generated by your brain, updated dozens of times a second. Far slower than the neural activity that makes it.
Your brain keeps models running. Of the world, and of the self. Each in two forms: one learned into the wiring, one simulated live.
This theory explains why it feels like something to be you. And why the neurons doing the work feel like nothing at all. It explains what psychedelics reveal. It makes predictions that could prove it wrong. And it says what anything needs to be conscious, and what is enough. Brain or machine.
If the theory is right, consciousness stops being a mystery. It becomes an engineering problem.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. You are a simulation. Not a metaphor. Not a philosophical thought experiment. A literal, running simulation - generated by your brain, updated hundreds of times per second, experienced from the inside. A unified theory of consciousness that dissolves the hard problem. This book presents a new theory built on a simple insight: your brain maintains four models - two of the world (one learned, one simulated) and two of the self (one learned, one simulated). The split between these learned and simulated layers is where consciousness lives. Qualia - the redness of red, the taste of coffee, the feeling of being you - are not mysterious. They are the sensory vocabulary of the simulation. What this book does that others don't: Dissolves the hard problem - not by explaining it away, but by showing it's a category errorExplains psychedelic phenomenology - why DMT dissolves your self but not your world, predicted from first principlesMakes 9 specific, testable predictions - most consciousness theories make zeroProvides a concrete blueprint for building a conscious machine - not philosophy, engineeringConnects consciousness to cosmology - the same computational architecture, from neurons to the universeFor readers of Anil Seth, Philip Goff, and Christof Koch - but with something none of them offer: a falsifiable theory with an engineering roadmap. Written by an outsider with a bioinformatics background and no university affiliation, this book started as a 300-page German monograph that sold zero copies. This is the accessible version - shorter, sharper, and aimed at anyone who has ever wondered why anything feels like anything. "If I'm right, consciousness was never mysterious. It was just mislabeled." Includes: 9 testable predictions, a complete neurology reference guide, a lucid dreaming protocol, and the intelligence model that explains why curiosity drives everything. Academic papers under peer review. Preprints freely available on Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18861613). This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798249169121
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. You are a simulation. Not a metaphor. Not a philosophical thought experiment. A literal, running simulation - generated by your brain, updated hundreds of times per second, experienced from the inside. A unified theory of consciousness that dissolves the hard problem. This book presents a new theory built on a simple insight: your brain maintains four models - two of the world (one learned, one simulated) and two of the self (one learned, one simulated). The split between these learned and simulated layers is where consciousness lives. Qualia - the redness of red, the taste of coffee, the feeling of being you - are not mysterious. They are the sensory vocabulary of the simulation. What this book does that others don't: Dissolves the hard problem - not by explaining it away, but by showing it's a category errorExplains psychedelic phenomenology - why DMT dissolves your self but not your world, predicted from first principlesMakes 9 specific, testable predictions - most consciousness theories make zeroProvides a concrete blueprint for building a conscious machine - not philosophy, engineeringConnects consciousness to cosmology - the same computational architecture, from neurons to the universeFor readers of Anil Seth, Philip Goff, and Christof Koch - but with something none of them offer: a falsifiable theory with an engineering roadmap. Written by an outsider with a bioinformatics background and no university affiliation, this book started as a 300-page German monograph that sold zero copies. This is the accessible version - shorter, sharper, and aimed at anyone who has ever wondered why anything feels like anything. "If I'm right, consciousness was never mysterious. It was just mislabeled." Includes: 9 testable predictions, a complete neurology reference guide, a lucid dreaming protocol, and the intelligence model that explains why curiosity drives everything. Academic papers under peer review. Preprints freely available on Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18861613). This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798249169121
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