Seven Dialogs between Haplous and Synergos
A Functional Architecture of Conscious Experience
Welcome
This site presents a physical-functional framework that explains how the human brain generates subjective experience – the entirety of our conscious existence thoughout life.
Central claim
A single exaptive operation in brain function generates every mode of subjective experience: conscious perception, recollection, imagination, and every other form of inner awareness. They are all variations of this same functional operation under different conditions.
Once the mechanics are clear, you realize:
Of course a split-brain patient behaves that way.
Of course recollection works like that.
Of course perception feels the way it does.
What the framework consists of:
1. A set of functional elements defined in physical terms.
2. The relationships that must hold between them.
3. How their interaction forms one coherent architecture that produces all conscious experience.
Without metaphysics or metaphor.
Why Dialogs?
Following Plato, Galileo and Berkeley, the dialog format lets readers work through each layer of reasoning step by step. A touch of character – a former professor turned monk, a skeptical administrator, and a wordless monastery cat – helps anchor the ideas.
Choose Your Path
You can begin exploring the framework on any of these pages:
Brief Synopsis of the Framework – A concise overview of the key concepts.
Epilogue V: Prelude – A casual conversation in a bar that introduces the framework's core ideas through everyday examples.
Dialog 1: Basic Mechanics – Dive straight into the dialogs at the monastery.
Or, if you are interested in consciousness in animals, you might read Dialog 2.5