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The Cunning of the Observable: Generalized Fourier Duality, the Hard Problem, and Natural Kinds of Psychopathology
Donald Mender
- 01 Jan 2013
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TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative solution harnessing isomorphisms between axiologically allied notions of risk and agency on one hand and quantum measurement operators on the other hand, is proposed, with an aim of engaging the full phenomenal range of the Hard Problem and Explanatory Gap while leaving inviolate the apparent causal completeness of physics.
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Abstract: This paper argues that all attempts employing exclusively ontological or epistemological constructs from metaphysics to solve the Hard Problem of consciousness and its attendant Explanatory Gap have failed. An alternative solution, harnessing isomorphisms between axiologically allied notions of risk and agency on one hand and quantum measurement operators on the other hand, is proposed. In order to broaden rigorously the applicability of these isomorphisms beyond canonically conjugate observables, i. e. with an aim of engaging the full phenomenal range of the Hard Problem and Explanatory Gap while leaving inviolate the apparent causal completeness of physics, an “isoqualitative” distortion gauge with “extrinsic” curvature is introduced. Potential relevance of this theoretical construct to the sentient brain’s quasi-continuous “measurement” operations “in vivo” is demonstrated, and possible implications for a future “geometric” nosology of “deviant” consciousness are postulated.
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