Welcome back to the consciousness iceberg.

We've journeyed from the sunlit surface of the basic definitions in layer one through the

heart problem and non-dualism in layer two, into the obscure theories of layer three, where we

tackled Heidegger's Dacine and attention schema theory. In the previous layer, layer four, where we tackled Heidegger's da sign and attention schema theory.

In the previous layer, layer four, we explored the radical ideas of thinkers like

Douglas Hofstetter's Strange Loops, Penrose's theory of quantum consciousness, Christopher

Langen's CTMU, John Joe McFadden's conscious electromagnetic information field theory,

David Chalmers' extended mind hypothesis,

and Ian McGilchrist's relational dual aspect monism. Now as we descend into layer five,

we encounter some of the most profound and challenging concepts yet. In this layer lies

Bernardo Castro's analytic idealism, a consciousness-only ontology, we'll then explore Carl Fristin's

free energy principle and its implications for understanding consciousness as a process of active inference.

Next, speaking of process, we venture into process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and his

pan-experientialism, which is a view that sees experience as fundamental to reality itself.

We'll also examine Mark Solm's groundbreaking work on affective neuroscience and his felt uncertainty principle,

which places feelings, valences, technically, at the very heart of consciousness.

Finally, we grapple with Thomas Metzinger's minimal phenomenal selfhood,

a theory that deconstructs the self into its most basic components. My name is Kurt Jymongle,

and on this channel, theories of everything, I explore mathematical physics and philosophy,

bridging these seemingly disparate subjects to make abstract concepts digestible while not skimping

on nor being afraid of

the rigor. Let's begin layer five. Bernardo Castrop's analytic idealism. Bernardo

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