News

2026

SST unification paper published. The paper extending the State Space Theory of consciousness and connecting it to IIT, Global Workspace Theory, and Higher-Order Theories is published in Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences. PubMed

Smooth embeddings paper. Joint work with Alessandro Selvitella on the mathematical foundations of SST: smooth embeddings in contracting recurrent networks driven by regular dynamics.

2025

CDM paper. Computational Dynamic Monism, the metaphysical framework underlying SST.

SST published. The State Space Theory of consciousness is published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies.

2024

Appointed Chair, ASA Committee on Informatics. I now chair the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Informatics and Information Technologies.

Promoted to Professor. Full Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington.