BFG Qualia Closure Formulation: Why Red Feels Like Red — A Trinitarian Recursive-Closure Theory of Qualitative Experience within the Balance–Field Framework
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) June 14, 2026 Marcel Wende
This whitepaper presents the BFG Qualia Closure Formulation (BFG-QCF), a theoretical and explicitly falsifiable account of qualitative experience within the Balance–Field Framework (BFG). Using the paradigmatic question "Why does red feel like red?", the paper argues that qualia are neither reducible to external stimuli, local neural activations, nor semantic labels. Instead, qualitative...