No one in this world has yet explained why and how humans (and other organisms) have qualia, phenomenal consciousness, or subjective experience. Proponents of this problem say it is categorically different from the easy problems since no mechanistic or behavioural explanation could explain the character of an experience, not even in principle.
But what if it’s simply oscillating resonance? I wonder…
Links
- Researchers discover novel computational principle based on oscillatory brain dynamics: https://www.esi-frankfurt.de/news/2025-01-29_neuepublikation/
- Kicking the Psychophysical Laws into Gear A New Approach to the Combination Problem: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263491208_Kicking_the_Psychophysical_Laws_into_Gear_A_New_Approach_to_the_Combination_Problem
- Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness https://consc.net/papers/facing.html
- The Conscious Mind: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-conscious-mind-9780195117899?q=The%20Conscious%20Mind:%20In%20Search%20of%20a%20Fundamental%20Theory&lang=en&cc=us
- The Role of Brain Oscillations in Defining Conscious States: https://www.neuroba.com/post/the-role-of-brain-oscillations-in-defining-conscious-states-neuroba
- Oscillatory Correlates of Visual Consciousness: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5500655/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
- Chapter 3 - Neuronal Oscillations, Coherence, and Consciousness: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/edited-volume/abs/pii/B9780128009482000030
- Understanding Neural Oscillations in the Human Brain: From Movement to Consciousness and Vice Versa: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01930/full