Consciousness Philosophers Table with Vector Space Sorting

Do you believe that consciousness is entirely a result of physical processes (Materialism), or do you think it involves non-physical elements as well?

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Do you think consciousness is primarily an internal process within the mind or brain (Internalism), or is it significantly shaped by interactions with the environment (Externalism)?

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How important do you think self-awareness and introspection are to the nature of consciousness? Would you rate their importance as high, medium, or low?

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Do you view consciousness as an ecological system property at the "Transactional Handshake" of future back-propagating "advanced" waves with forward "retarded" waves. (Ecological Dual Fields), or do you believe it is a property of the individual with feed forward causality alone?

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How much do you think the subjective, qualitative aspects of experience (what it is like to be someone) are central to understanding consciousness? Would you rate their importance as high, medium, or low?

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Cosine Distance Philosopher School of Thought Materialism Internalism Self-awareness DualField Subjective Experience
0.0 Daniel Dennett Eliminative Materialism 1.0 0.9 0.5 0.0 0.3
0.0 David Chalmers Property Dualism 0.2 0.8 0.9 0.3 0.7
0.0 Patricia Churchland Neurophilosophy 1.0 0.9 0.4 0.0 0.2
0.0 Thomas Nagel Philosophy of Mind 0.3 0.7 0.8 0.0 1.0
0.0 John Searle Biological Naturalism 0.7 0.8 0.7 0.2 0.6
0.0 Hilary Putnam Functionalism 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.3 0.7
0.0 Galen Strawson Panpsychism 0.4 0.8 0.9 0.2 0.8
0.0 Susan Blackmore Memetics 0.9 0.7 0.5 0.0 0.4
0.0 Stephen Guerin Dual Consciousness 0.8 0.5 0.1 1.0 0.9
0.0 Stuart Kauffman Dual Consciousness 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.3 0.8
0.0 Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism 0.4 0.7 0.9 0.3 0.7
0.0 Chu Hsi (Zhu Xi) Neo-Confucianism 0.5 0.6 0.8 0.4 0.6
0.0 Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) Daoism 0.3 0.6 0.7 0.5 0.9
0.0 Lao Tzu (Laozi) Daoism 0.2 0.5 0.8 0.6 0.9
0.0 Confucius Confucianism 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.3 0.7
0.0 Alfred North Whitehead Panpsychism 0.3 0.6 0.7 0.5 0.9
0.0 Thomas Aquinas Christian Scholasticism 0.2 0.8 0.9 0.1 0.8
0.0 Al-Ghazali Islamic Philosophy 0.1 0.7 0.8 0.2 0.9
0.0 Maimonides Jewish Philosophy 0.3 0.7 0.8 0.1 0.7
0.0 Adi Shankaracharya Advaita Vedanta 0.1 0.6 0.9 0.5 0.9
0.0 Nagarjuna Madhyamaka 0.2 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.9
0.0 Guru Nanak Sikhism 0.3 0.6 0.8 0.4 0.8