Towards Consciousness Engineering By Max Hodak

These are my detailed notes of the talk Towards Consciousness Engineering by Max Hodak. It’s written with some help of Gemini 2.5 I.

These are my detailed notes of the talk Towards Consciousness Engineering by Max Hodak. It’s written with some help of Gemini 2.5 I. Definition of Consciousness The term “consciousness” is notoriously slippery. An Operational Definition of Consciousness Consciousness is the thing that is modulated by anesthetics or psychedelics. This definition deliberately grounds the phenomenon in biochemistry. Psychedelics, in particular, demonstrate that this thing we call consciousness can be reliably and repeatedly perturbed by pharmacological agents. There is a real, physical process that can be…

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