CACHI Consciousness Research

Evolution Is Not Random

A new study shows that genetic mutations that drive evolution are not, in fact, randomly selected.

Sep 4 • 

John Wood

August 2025

Foundations of a Born Rule Derivation Part 1

Here we look at the problem of probability in quantum physics and discuss how CHI dynamics lay a foundation for a plausible solution, which we…

Aug 11 • 

John Wood

Cachi-Forth For Modeling The Mind

Cachi Forth is a simple toy language and IDE used for modeling various AIT dynamics with a special focus on the CACHI theory of consciousness.

Aug 10 • 

John Wood

Introducing CACHI

A Novel Theory: Consciousness as Complexity-Homeostatic Integration

Aug 4 • 

John Wood

Complexity as Kolmogorov and Computational Depth

A justification for calculating complexity from the *product* of Kolmogorov and Computational Depth.

Aug 4 • 

John Wood

July 2025

Interoception as Complexity Homeostasis

Pain, hunger, fatigue - are these all also complexity regulating signals?

Jul 19 • 

John Wood

Is the Substrate Critical for Consciousness?

A review of the evidence that consciousness is informational rather than substrate-dependent

Jul 15 • 

John Wood

May 2023

Theory of Other Minds and P-Zombies

Are your friends really "all there" ?

May 26, 2023 • 

John Wood

April 2023

Resolving the Unknown

What if reality were simply a machine generating plausible explanations for phenomena?

Apr 21, 2023 • 

John Wood

February 2023

Level of Detail and the Dual Nature of Causality

Bottom-up causality is how we tend to understand the world. How does this downward-causality work?

Feb 5, 2023 • 

John Wood

Zeno's Paradox and Identity

Materialism says we have no persistent identity. The fact we experience one means materialism is wrong, and mortality with it.

Feb 3, 2023 • 

John Wood

January 2023

Model of the Mind, Part 2

The structure of the mind explained with five archetypes: The Inquisitor, Producer, Feared, Guardian and the Reliable.

Jan 27, 2023 • 

John Wood