My impression is that GNW is widely accepted to be a leading contender for explaining consciousness, an important problem. This is a nice intro, and having read both this post and the book in question I can confirm that it covers the important ground fairly. I wound up coming around to a different take on consciousness, see my Book Review: Rethinking Consciousness, but while that book didn’t talk much about GNW, I found that familiarity with GNW helped me reframe those ideas and understand them better, and indeed my explanation of that theory puts GNW (which I first heard about through this post) front and center. I should add that I find GNW helpful for thinking about thinking in general, not just consciousness per se.
Also, having read both the book and the post, I probably could have just read the post and skipped the book, and wouldn’t have missed much.
My impression is that GNW is widely accepted to be a leading contender for explaining consciousness, an important problem. This is a nice intro, and having read both this post and the book in question I can confirm that it covers the important ground fairly. I wound up coming around to a different take on consciousness, see my Book Review: Rethinking Consciousness, but while that book didn’t talk much about GNW, I found that familiarity with GNW helped me reframe those ideas and understand them better, and indeed my explanation of that theory puts GNW (which I first heard about through this post) front and center. I should add that I find GNW helpful for thinking about thinking in general, not just consciousness per se.
Also, having read both the book and the post, I probably could have just read the post and skipped the book, and wouldn’t have missed much.