Constraint-Based Physicalism
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) February 20, 2026 Kendall Taylor
How to Read This Paper: This paper does not attempt to derive subjective experience from neural activity, solve the hard problem in the reductive sense, or identify a neural correlate of consciousness. It does something different: it asks what kind of physical fact consciousness would have to be if it is a physical fact at all, and finds that the answer dissolves the problem that motivated the...