Digital Organism Theory
Trust your experience.
Feelings are data. Tune your interpretation toward coherence.
Challenge models that exclude you or ask you to be someone else.
Henok Ghebrechristos: an inquiry into consciousness, conditioning, and the beliefs we mistake for truth. Question the claims, read Book One, or explore the work.
By Henok Ghebrechristos, PhD. I write about consciousness and conditioning, and build the software this Academy runs on. Book One is a fixed statement of where that work stood; the inquiry remains open.
Questions for inquiry
The Closed Question
Mainstream science should examine subjective experience, not dismiss it in advance. Explaining what the brain does does not, by itself, explain why there is something it feels like to be you.
DOT rejects · Model
Chalmers, 1995Physicalism
Physicalism proposes that everything, including mind, is physical. Does the evidence establish that worldview, or is the worldview deciding which evidence counts? Keep the question open.
Outside perspective · Model
Nagel, 2012 · Strawson, 2006Secular Humanism
Secular humanism values reason, experience, and human flourishing. Hold it to those commitments: when experience challenges its assumptions, is it investigated or explained away? A worldview must answer to inquiry, too.
Outside perspective · Model
Humanist Manifesto III, 2003Consciousness 101
Love is the condition in which Fear no longer governs you.
Book One, preface
Read. Inquire. Open up.
Read the book. Examine your experience. Ask questions, and be willing to change what you hold to be true. This work can be long and difficult. Take your time; there is no timetable for it.
Henok’s account begins with lived experience. His explanations of a larger consciousness and a nonphysical substrate remain hypotheses, open to challenge and revision.
Book One is a fixed edition. The Academy holds definitions and open questions as the inquiry develops.