Consciousness Survey Project 22 Theories of Mind and Consciousness 14 Approachable Via Science 13 Representational Qualia Theory 9 Mind-Brain Identity Theory 5 Arises From Any Equivalent Functional Organization 1 Computational Functionalism 1 Updating Model of Self in the World 3 Property Dualism 1 Higher-dimensional Theories 1 Consciousness is Representational and Partly Illusory 2 Consciousness as a 5th dimension of the brain 2 Absolute space is the noumenal source of phenomenal consciousness 2 Endogenous Light Nexus Theory 1 Consciousness is structurally coded Popular Consensus Expert Scientific Consensus The survey needs you! Which theories are most well accepted by the experts; is this changing? Many people, including some in control of scientific research budgets, either can't, or are unwilling to understand and recognize the best theories, mostly because they have no hope of getting a handle on the 20K+ primitive, static, inconsistent language, and repetitive publications in this field. Eventually science will disprove the incorrect theories, as indicated when the experts abandon all but the one theory science demonstrates to be valid. How much progress are we making or have we already made towards this? Who will be the first supporters of the one science ultimately proves valid? Help promote the ideas and educate everyone which could enable what might become the greatest scientific discovery of all time by supporting the best theories. (Like signing a petition, only you can change your mind and so much more.) Canonizer.com is a Wikipedia like system with added camps and survey capabilities. Rather than fighting endless and repetitive wiki edit wars, when there is a difference of opinion, you can simply fork a camp resulting in concise and quantitative representations of both. Any proposed changes to a camp go into a review mode for one week. Supporters of a camp can object to any such proposed change, preventing it from 'going live'. This allows the 'petition' to change and improve while maintaining unanimous support of all signers. If anyone objects to what you believe is an important change you are proposing, you can fork the camp, taking all that agree with you to the 'improved' version of the camp. But of course splitting a camp diminishes consensus and influence of both camps - providing strong motivation to come up with creative ways to be conciliatory and to avoid such where possible, especially on the more important and actionable issues. It is primarily a tool implementing a set of rules, and some structure, designed to enable large crowds of people to collaboratively develop a concise, quantitative, real time representation of what they all value. Good sources of information tend to have very severe filtering, and vetting mechanism in place - usually controlled by some bias prone hierarchy leadership. Canonizer.com flips this censoring notion upside down and allows all entries in. Instead, it provides any prioritizing or filtering (or canonization, if you will) to be controlled by the reader. The reader can configure or select an algorithm on the side bar that most values the experts in a way they choose. The above listing shows the values using the default one person one vote popular algorithm. When you select the 'mind expert' scientific consensus algorithm, the "Property Dualism" camp rises above the otherwise default popular "Arises From Anything" camp Chalmers argues for. Today, it seems most have a perception that there is no consensus on much of anything, especially in this still theoretical field of mind. But this is largely because any time anyone agrees on anything, the discussion stops. This includes that contained in the scientific publications. They get bogged down in the eternal yes it is, no it isn't merry-go-round. Arguments degenerate into nit-picking. The important issues are side-lined. Our aim is to cut through this mess by building clear camp statements and voting on them to arrive at a consensus.. The hierarchical camp structure is such that indented sub camps support, or agree with the parent camp. This allows the more agreeable and important theories to rise to the top - while the less important disagreeable issues can be pushed to ever less supported sub camps. A good example of this is the way critically important doctrines like perception is representational, qualia are important, and the prediction that science will soon be able to 'eff'' such ineffable qualities are powerfully contained in the "Representational Qualia Theory" camp that so far has near unanimous expert consensus. While the lesser important more disagreeable doctrines, like what qualia are, and so on, are concisely and quantitatively represented in the supporting sub camp trees. Whether or not you agree, come and have a look and participate in solving the greatest problem on earth. For more information contact