News

2026

SST/CDM on the Landscape of Consciousness. State Space Theory and Computational Dynamic Monism are now listed on Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s Landscape of Consciousness at Closer to Truth, a catalogue of over 400 theories of consciousness.

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 | Open Access

Embedding paper. Joint work with Alessandro Selvitella on the mathematical foundations of SST: embedding of low-dimensional sensory dynamics in recurrent networks.

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.