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Qualia are Quantum Leaps

George Svetlichny

arXiv Preprint Archive April 13, 2011 preprint

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper
Keywords Physics.hist-ph Quantum consciousness Quantum mechanics quant-ph Qualia
Key points Proposes that subjective experience and quantum state reductions are identical, thereby resolving both the quantum measurement problem and the hard problem of consciousness.

Abstract

I contemplate the idea that the subjective world and quantum state reductions are one and the same. If true, this resolves with one stroke both the quantum mechanical measurement problem and the hard problem of consciousness.