A practising emergency physician writing about how we decide another mind is there — in a patient, in a colleague, and now in a machine.

The street. Other faces. The same imperfect evidence.

The work of the ward is deciding who is in there. The book is the same question, asked of minds that do not look like ours.

Recognition. A smile, or the decision to see one.
Cover art for I Know I Am Conscious. But How Do I Know You Are?

I Know I Am Conscious
But How Do I Know You Are?

Human Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and the Mystery of the Self

What if the hardest part of finding consciousness is deciding where to look?

This is not a book that claims to have the answers. It is a book about better questions — and why they matter now.

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Practice

Emergency medicine at Monash Health and the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department — where the questions come from.

The work

Institute

Applied AI education for health professionals — built around real clinical work, not tools.

Intelligent Mind Institute