Holographic Duality and the Physics of Consciousness.
Frontiers in systems neuroscience January 1, 2022 Uziel Awret
A novel dual-aspect theory of consciousness is proposed, grounded in the principle of holographic duality from modern physics. The theory aims to provide consciousness-independent explanations for anti-physicalist intuitions about representational content and spatial location, while setting aside the hard problem and phenomenal character. The author argues that abstract algorithms are insufficient and that a more radical form of computation, inspired by physics and realizable in strange metals, may be required. This approach could establish necessary connections between structural aspects of conscious mental states and their physical substrate, and explain why representational content is not spatially located. The paper ends by reconsidering the conceivability of zombies.