Qualia are Quantum Leaps
arXiv Preprint Archive April 13, 2011 George Svetlichny
The author proposes that subjective experience (qualia) and the collapse of quantum wave functions are identical processes. If this identity holds, it would simultaneously solve two long-standing puzzles: the measurement problem in quantum mechanics (why observations yield definite outcomes) and the hard problem of consciousness (why there is subjective experience). The argument is presented as a philosophical contemplation rather than an empirical claim, drawing on concepts from quantum mechanics and philosophy of mind.