Volume 1 — The Operating System
Foundational References
Quantum Gravity & The Problem of Time
- DeWitt, B. S. (1967). "Quantum Theory of Gravity. I. The Canonical Theory." Physical Review.
- Everett, H. (1957). "'Relative State' Formulation of Quantum Mechanics." Reviews of Modern Physics.
- Page, D. N., & Wootters, W. K. (1983). "Evolution without evolution: Dynamics described by stationary observables." Physical Review D.
- Wheeler, J. A. (1968). "Superspace and the Nature of Quantum Geometrodynamics." Battelle Rencontres.
Topology & Number Theory
- Atiyah, M. F., Patodi, V. K., & Singer, I. M. (1975). "Spectral asymmetry and Riemannian geometry. I." Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 77(1), 43–69. [Foundational reference for the APS Index Theorem; basis for the K-theoretic gap label in the electron mass derivation.]
- Berry, M. V. (1984). "Quantal Phase Factors Accompanying Adiabatic Changes." Proceedings of the Royal Society A.
- Connes, A. (1994). Noncommutative Geometry. Academic Press. [Foundation of the K-theoretic and spectral triple framework used in GCT's gauge sector and lepton mass derivations.]
- Connes, A., & Moscovici, H. (1995). "The Local Index Formula in Noncommutative Geometry." Geometric and Functional Analysis, 5(2), 174–243.
- Cuntz, J., & Krieger, W. (1980). "A class of C*-algebras and topological Markov chains." Inventiones Mathematicae, 56(3), 251–268. [Cuntz-Krieger algebra; basis for the Adelic Solenoid inverse-limit construction and KMS states.]
- Hurwitz, A. (1891). "Über die genäherte Darstellung der Irrationalzahlen durch rationale Brüche." Mathematische Annalen. [The basis for the Icosahedral Selection Theorem].
- Koide, Y. (1983). "A Fermion-Boson Composite Model of Quarks and Leptons." Physics Letters B, 120(1–3), 161–165. [The Koide lepton mass relation; benchmark for V3 lepton mass derivations.]
- Pontryagin, L. S. (1966). Topological Groups. Gordon and Breach.
Quasicrystals & Condensed Matter
- Bellissard, J., Herrmann, D. J. L., & Zarrouati, M. (2000). "Hulls of Aperiodic Solids and Gap Labelling Theorems." Directions in Mathematical Quasicrystals, CRM Monograph Series, 13, 207–258.
- de Bruijn, N. G. (1981). "Algebraic theory of Penrose's non-periodic tilings of the plane." Proceedings of the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series A, 84(1), 38–66.
- Shechtman, D., Blech, I., Gratias, D., & Cahn, J. W. (1984). "Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry." Physical Review Letters, 53(20), 1951.
Information & Thermodynamics
- Bekenstein, J. D. (1973). "Black Holes and Entropy." Physical Review D.
- Gleason, A. M. (1957). "Measures on the Closed Subspaces of a Hilbert Space." Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics.
- Hawking, S. W. (1974). "Black Hole Explosions?" Nature.
- Jacobson, T. (1995). "Thermodynamics of Spacetime: The Einstein Equation of State." Physical Review Letters, 75(7), 1260. [Primary reference for the entropic gravity derivation of .]
- Landauer, R. (1961). "Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process." IBM Journal of Research and Development.
- Ryu, S., & Takayanagi, T. (2006). "Holographic Derivation of Entanglement Entropy from the anti–de Sitter Space/Conformal Field Theory Correspondence." Physical Review Letters, 96(18), 181602. [Basis for the holographic derivation in V2 Ch14.]
- Shannon, C. E. (1948). "A Mathematical Theory of Communication." Bell System Technical Journal.
- Solomonoff, R. J. (1964). "A Formal Theory of Inductive Inference." Information and Control.
Consciousness & Biology
- Chalmers, D. J. (1995). "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness." Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2(3), 200–219.
- Fröhlich, H. (1968). "Long-range coherence and energy storage in biological systems." International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2(5), 641–649.
- Husserl, E. (1913). Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology. (English trans. W.R. Boyce Gibson, 1931.)
- Russell, B. (1912). "On the Notion of Cause." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 13, 1–26. [Namesake source for V1 Ch10 "Russellian Causation"; the canonical philosophical critique of bare-cause language that motivates GCT's geometric-causation reframing.]
- Signorelli, C. M., Szczotka, J., & Prentner, R. (2021). "Explanatory profiles of models of consciousness — towards a systematic classification." Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2), niab021. [Cited at V1 Ch17 §17.5 Table 17.5 for honeybee invertebrate-ganglia estimates in the GCT-vs-IIT comparison row.]
Philosophy of Mind — Phenomenal Consciousness, Hard Problem, Russellian Monism
- Balaguer, M. (2009). Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem. MIT Press. [Event-causal-libertarian post-deliberative agent-determined-option-set architecture cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.8e.]
- Baars, B. J. (1988). A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness. Cambridge University Press. [Global Workspace Theory monograph cited in V1 Ch17 §17.5.1.]
- Bechara, A., Damasio, H., Tranel, D., & Damasio, A. R. (2005). "The Iowa Gambling Task and the somatic marker hypothesis: some questions and answers." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(4), 159–162. [Somatic-marker reference cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.8d.]
- Block, N. (1995). "On a confusion about a function of consciousness." Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18(2), 227–247. [Original P/A consciousness distinction; cited in V1 Ch16 §16.1.4b + §16.2.8d as the spine of the Level I/IIA/IIB three-tier framework.]
- Block, N. (2007). "Consciousness, accessibility, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscience." Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(5–6), 481–499. [Refined P/A treatment with the iconic-memory overflow case as P-without-A.]
- Block, N. (2011a). "Perceptual consciousness overflows cognitive access." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15(12), 567–575. [Overflow argument for phenomenal-without-access consciousness; cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.8d.]
- Block, N. (2011b). "The higher order approach to consciousness is defunct." Analysis, 71(3), 419–431. [Transitivity-gap critique of HOT cited in V1 Ch16 §16.1.4b.]
- Block, N., & Stalnaker, R. (1999). "Conceptual analysis, dualism, and the explanatory gap." Philosophical Review, 108(1), 1–46. [Conceivability-vs-metaphysical-possibility reply cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.8a.]
- Carruthers, P. (2000). Phenomenal Consciousness: A Naturalistic Theory. Cambridge University Press. [HOT engagement reference cited in V1 Ch16 §16.1.4b.]
- Chalmers, D. J. (2010). The Character of Consciousness. Oxford University Press. [Ch.10, "Phenomenal Concepts and the Explanatory Gap," cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.8a.]
- Chalmers, D. J. (2017). "The combination problem for panpsychism." In G. Brüntrup & L. Jaskolla (eds.), Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 179–214. [Combination Problem statement cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.7.]
- Dennett, D. C. (1991). Consciousness Explained. Little, Brown. [Cartesian-Theater critique cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.7c + §16.2.8c.]
- Dennett, D. C. (2016). "Illusionism as the obvious default theory of consciousness." Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23(11–12), 65–72.
- Frankish, K. (2016). "Illusionism as a theory of consciousness." Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23(11–12), 11–39. [Illusionist position engaged in V1 Ch16 §16.2.7c.]
- Gazzaniga, M. S. (1970). The Bisected Brain. Appleton-Century-Crofts.
- Gazzaniga, M. S. (2005). "Forty-five years of split-brain research and still going strong." Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6(8), 653–659. [Classical Sperry/Gazzaniga interpretation cited in V1 Ch17 Table 17.5.]
- Goff, P. (2017). Consciousness and Fundamental Reality. Oxford University Press. [Russellian monism + combination problem; load-bearing reference for V1 Ch16 §16.2.2c, §16.2.7, §16.2.8b.]
- Hill, C. S., & McLaughlin, B. P. (1999). "There are fewer things in reality than are dreamt of in Chalmers's philosophy." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 59(2), 445–454. [Modal-conceivability rebuttal of zombie arguments; cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.8a as part of the load-bearing response to the Direct Incongruence Argument.]
- Hoffman, D. D. (2019). The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. W. W. Norton. [Interface theory of perception engaged in V1 Ch16 §16.2.7d.]
- Kane, R. (1996). The Significance of Free Will. Oxford University Press. [Self-Forming Action (SFA) libertarian architecture distinguished from Balaguer's event-causal structure in V1 Ch16 §16.2.8e.]
- Kane, R. (1999). "Responsibility, luck, and chance: Reflections on free will and indeterminism." Journal of Philosophy, 96(5), 217–240.
- Kripke, S. A. (1980). Naming and Necessity. Harvard University Press. [A-posteriori-necessity framework cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.8a.]
- Lamme, V. A. F. (2006). "Towards a true neural stance on consciousness." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(11), 494–501. [Phenomenal-without-access neural-correlates work cited in V1 Ch17 Table 17.5.]
- Lau, H. (2008). "A higher-order Bayesian decision theory of consciousness." Progress in Brain Research, 168, 35–48.
- Brown, R., Lau, H., & LeDoux, J. E. (2019). "Understanding the higher-order approach to consciousness." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(9), 754–768.
- Maniscalco, B., & Lau, H. (2012). "A signal detection theoretic approach for estimating metacognitive sensitivity from confidence ratings." Consciousness and Cognition, 21(1), 422–430.
- Mele, A. R. (2006). Free Will and Luck. Oxford University Press. [Modest-libertarianism architecture + contrastive-luck residual cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.8e.]
- Pinto, Y., Neville, D. A., Otten, M., Corballis, P. M., Lamme, V. A. F., de Haan, E. H. F., Foschi, N., & Fabri, M. (2017). "Split brain: divided perception but undivided consciousness." Brain, 140(5), 1231–1237. [Polaron-unity test case cited in V1 Ch17 Table 17.5.]
- Rosenthal, D. M. (1997). "A theory of consciousness." In N. Block, O. Flanagan, & G. Güzeldere (eds.), The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates. MIT Press, pp. 729–753. [HOT-foundational reference cited in V1 Ch16 §16.1.4b.]
- Rosenthal, D. M. (2005). Consciousness and Mind. Oxford University Press. [HOT-foundational reference cited in V1 Ch16 §16.1.4b.]
- Rosenthal, D. M. (2012). "Higher-order awareness, misrepresentation and function." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367, 1424–1438. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0353. [HOT refinement cited in V1 Ch16 §16.1.4b.]
- Searle, J. R. (1980). "Minds, brains, and programs." Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3(3), 417–457. [Chinese Room argument cited in V1 Ch17 §17.6.4.]
- Searle, J. R. (1992). The Rediscovery of the Mind. MIT Press.
- Seager, W. (1995). "Consciousness, information and panpsychism." Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2(3), 272–288. [Combination Problem precursor cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.7.]
- Sperry, R. W. (1968). "Hemisphere deconnection and unity in conscious awareness." American Psychologist, 23(10), 723–733.
- Strawson, G. (2006). "Realistic monism: Why physicalism entails panpsychism." Journal of Consciousness Studies, 13(10–11), 3–31. [Real-materialism Russellian-monism position cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.8b.]
- Strawson, G. (2008). Real Materialism and Other Essays. Oxford University Press.
- Tegmark, M. (2008). "The Mathematical Universe." Foundations of Physics, 38(2), 101–150. [Mathematical Universe Hypothesis canonical reference; cited in V1 Ch06 §6.4.5 parsimony comparison.]
- Volz, L. J., & Gazzaniga, M. S. (2017). "Interaction in isolation: 50 years of insights from split-brain research." Brain, 140(7), 2051–2060. [Camp-2 reply to Pinto et al. 2017 cited in V1 Ch17 Table 17.5.]
- Yablo, S. (1993). "Is conceivability a guide to possibility?" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 53(1), 1–42. [Conceivability-vs-possibility analysis cited in V1 Ch16 §16.2.8a.]