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Carlos's avatar

> consciousness has an inherent mathematical structure to be discovered and described

I'm pretty confident it does not, you are trying to use math as a map here, but how will a territory that you cannot see be mapped? Probably the best model we can build on the mind will resemble nephology: we can categorize some things, but so much will be left to chance also.

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The irrationalist's avatar

You can check out the linked book: https://opentheory.net/principia-qualia/

We definitely don't have a fleshed-out theory yet, but we have some angles of attack currently which makes me optimistic.

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Brians Bnewsletter's avatar

hell yeah

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Jeff W Welsh's avatar

Interesting read - thanks!

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