Why the World Needs a Subject: Solving the Hard Problem of Qualia through the Self-Reflection of the Absolute and Reentry
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 11, 2026 Yuri N. Berdinsky, Pauline S. Ordina
The hard problem of consciousness asks why physical processing is accompanied by subjective experience. Since every observable act admits an exhaustive physical description, and a being with no inner life would behave identically, the subject seems causally superfluous. This paper argues the answer is ontological: subjectivity is not emergent but primary, as an attribute of a self-reflective...