From Reentry to Subject: A Topological Approach to the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Yury Berdinsky preprint
Why are physical processes in the brain accompanied by subjective experience at all-by the redness of red, the taste of coffee or the feeling of pain? This puzzle, known as the "hard problem of consciousness", has for centuries been left to metaphysics, because from the outside we see only a mechanism: ionic currents, neuronal discharges and the cogwheels of the connectome. The present work...