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Is a general mathematical theory of consciousness possible?

What areas of mathematics are relevant to consciousness and what useful medical and commercial applications might they have?

Can understanding the similarities, differences and complementarities of the existing theories help progress to be made?

Can consciousness be unified with physics?

Are we in an ethical race against time to formulate a general theory?

Can mathematics reveal which architectures generate consciousness and is there a type of mathematical structure that has the property of consciousness?

(1988) Global workspace theory

(1990) Neural correlates of consciousness

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(1988) Global workspace theory

(1990) Neural correlates of consciousness

(1995) Quantum mechanics and microtubules (Orchestrated objective reduction)

(2004) Integrated Information Theory (IIT)

(2004) Quantum cognition (quantum-like paradigm)

(2005) SpiNNaker project

(2006) Karl Friston's Free energy principle

(2010) Biological mechanisms of consciousness (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science)

(2012) Expected float entropy minimisation (EFE)

(2013) The Human Brain Project

(2015) Integrated information-induced quantum collapse

(2017) Strongly connected networks