Relative Reality
arXiv Preprint Archive February 8, 2025 Rongwei Yang
Qualia—the subjective, felt qualities of experience—are argued to be non-physical entities. Building on the historical development of non-Euclidean geometry, the paper defines what it means to be non-physical and uses a postulate about awareness to prove that qualia are non-physical and that thoughts are a type of qualia. A concept of relative reality is introduced, where perceptions depend on the observer and time, and is modeled mathematically using Hilbert space theory. The model yields the Schrödinger equation and shows that eigenstates exist for classical energy-conserving systems, illustrated with the G. P. Thomson experiment and the classical harmonic oscillator. A postulate about a qualia force is proposed as a fundamental part of absolute reality, akin to the four fundamental forces.