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Pedro Resende

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Qualia as physical measurements: a mathematical model of qualia and pure concepts

arXiv Preprint Archive March 20, 2022 Pedro Resende

A space of qualia is defined to be a sober topological space whose points are the qualia and whose open sets are the pure concepts in the sense of Lewis, carrying additional algebraic structure that conveys the conscious experience of subjective time and logical abstraction. This structure is analogous to that of a space of physical measurements. It is conjectured that qualia and measurements...

A physical approach to qualia and the emergence of conscious observers in qualia space

arXiv Preprint Archive March 20, 2022 Pedro Resende

I propose that qualia are physical because they are directly observable, and revisit the contentious link between consciousness and quantum measurements from a new perspective -- one that does not rely on observers or wave function collapse but instead treats physical measurements as fundamental in a sense resonant with Wheeler's it-from-bit. Building on a mathematical definition of measurement...