Contemporary fundamental physics, on inspection, resolves almost entirely into relational structure. Charge, energy, mass, and quantum state each turn out, under analysis, to be conserved or covariant quantities defined by symmetry-relations rather than intrinsic properties of independently existing substances; even the fermionic “matter particles” of the Standard Model interact only through...
This article provides an entry point on understanding subjectivity. Because subjectivity itself in the wild has been both poorly understood and basal to consciousness theories, subsequent theories flowing therefrom have been troubled. Subjects are consequential, not starting points. The exhaustive arguments are provided by my other works in the references.
Consciousness research is a field beset with mystery and many conflicting theories. Each set of hypotheses and arguments in the present situationnecessitate first identifying, conveying, and digesting entire platforms of presumptions and definitions from which to reason and work forward.There has emerged no standard, useful structure for work and discourse; prevalent large theories are deeply...