Situating this poster in the conference:

• Mélanie Boly's work suggests feedback from the conscious to the unconscious is as (or more) important than the feed forward
  • okay, she didn't quite say that, her claim was about feedback from the frontal cortex, but humor me
• The claim here is that, in the normal range of (far from minimal) consciousness states, feedback is influenced by our implicit philosophy of consciousness — our metapsychological assumptions about the framework of our minds
  • a philosophy which may be imperfect (to say the least)
• Can our implicit philosophy of consciousness be improved in a way that will factor in the conscious–unconscious feedback–feed forward loop and increase the scope and/or quality and/or utility of consciousness?
• Can the scope of consciousness in normal life, as compared to the meditation retreat, be improved by what is essentially philosophic inquiry and logic?
  • which may or may not closely resemble contemporary trends in academic philosophy which after all is "academic" and doesn't, as a rule*, strive for pragmatic applicability to human flourishing
• That's the larger question
  • my poster is a first approximation of what such work might look like

*Susan Blackmore's attempts to live without assuming she has a self while taking what comes into her mind as memes would be a notable exception to the rule, were she in a philosophy department. My approach is in the same genus, but a different animal.