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People

Researchers, theorists, and writers whose work the KB draws on or argues with. Grouped by primary discipline; within each group, sorted by surname.

Schema

Each entry: name (original-script form for non-English names) — disciplines. Notable works (linked to books when in the KB), then a one-line role in the KB.

A person earns an entry here when their work is referenced from at least one KB page or queued in books. Individual pages (people/<slug>.md) get extracted when one person accumulates more than an entry's worth of biographical or intellectual notes.

Philosophy of mind

  • David J. Chalmers — Philosophy of mind · Consciousness · Philosophy of language. The Conscious Mind (1996, in KB) · Toward a Science of Consciousness III (ed., 1999) · Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings (ed., 2002) · The Character of Consciousness (2010) · Constructing the World (2012). Anchor figure for the hard problem framing; every position in the Philosophy layer of the KB is implicitly arguing for or against his formulation.
  • Daniel C. Dennett (1942–2024) — Philosophy of mind · Philosophy of science · Philosophy of biology · Evolutionary biology · Cognitive science. Consciousness Explained (1991, in KB) · Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995, in KB) · Breaking the Spell (2006). The "consciousness can be deflated" pole — multiple-drafts model, heterophenomenology, qualia-skepticism. Direct counterweight to Chalmers's hard problem within the KB.

Neuroscience & cognitive science

  • Konstantin Anokhin (Константин Анохин) — Neurobiology · Memory · Cognitive neuroscience. [TODO: add primary publications — Cognitome / гиперсетевая теория мозга papers]. Russian neuroscientist developing the cognitome / hypernetwork theory of brain — argues cognition emerges at a level above the connectome, on functional hypernetworks of co-firing groups. Direct on-axis for the KB's "consciousness as emergent ensemble dynamics" framing.
  • Tatiana Chernigovskaya (Татьяна Черниговская) — Neurolinguistics · Cognitive science · Psycholinguistics. Чеширская улыбка кота Шрёдингера: язык и сознание (2013) — The Cheshire Smile of Schrödinger's Cat: Language and Consciousness. Russian neurolinguist; popularizer of the language-and-consciousness intersection in Russian-language discourse. Useful entry for the Terminology and Phenomena layers, particularly on how language structures thought.