- Author
- Danilo Znamerovszkij, based on a paper by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
- Published
- Undated
- Kind
- Interactive reference site and taxonomy browser
- Original
- www.consciousnessatlas.com/
- Subject
- Mind, attention and practice
What it is
Danilo Znamerovszkij, a frontend engineer, built the site as an independent project. It visualizes Kuhn's paper "A Landscape of Consciousness". Kuhn did not take part in the design or content.
What it says
- The site says it maps theories of phenomenal consciousness, meaning the subjective feel of experience.
- It sorts theories into eleven categories, arranged from physical to nonphysical.
- Materialism is the largest family, with 200 theories. Idealism has 42 and dualism has 39.
- Each entry shows an identity line, conceptual ground, mechanism, empirical notes, implications and sources.
- The site says it does not endorse or rank theories.
What evidence it gives
The site offers a taxonomy from one paper. It gives counts per family and lists 457 theories. It reports no tests or data of its own.
Interests and limits
The categories come from Kuhn's paper, so its biases carry over. The site calls itself exploratory and not an authoritative scientific classification. Only the front page text and theory list were read. The individual theory entries, the quiz and the comparison tool were not opened.