Andrew Y. Lee on the Geometry of Consciousness

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mentioned BOOKS
"Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter:
"The Conscious Mind" by David Chalmers:

referenced PAPERS:
"Objective Phenomenology" by Andrew Lee:
"Modeling Mental Qualities" by Andrew Lee:
G. Jordan et al.'s case study of a woman exhibiting tetrachromacy:
"Degrees of Consciousness" by Andrew Lee:

PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS that we talk about:
the Hard Problem:
Philosophical Zombies:
Mary's Room:
What is it like to be a bat?
Psychophysics:

COLLEAGUES mentioned (in chronological order):
David Chalmers
Ned Block
Thomas Nagel
Max Tegmark
Johannes Kleiner:
Poppy Mankovitz:
Nao Tsuchiya:

Nao Tsuchiya's YouTube channel:

[mattsigl]

IIT really is supreme at developing these ideas most fully. A recent paper isolated how the qualia space of space is generated by an integrated set of grids. Qualia analysis and it’s geometric construction is the extreme Wild West of science and very much the future, especially in the area of A.I.

Overall, I think it’s very important to recognize the hierarchal nature of our qualia experience. Color experience first and foremost happens in a quale capable of a sense of space, for instance. No color without space. (Lots of rules like this I reckon.) Also, if information is the key then it explains why “color” is a dimension (or dimensions) while a particular color (like pink) is not. This is because, if color is a dimension which contains the potentiality to be different states (shapes) then SOME color will be realized as long as it’s POSSIBLE that some color can be realized! And the shape that that dimension transforms to (in the context of the whole quale) specifies the color that is actually being experienced, but with the important point that when this happens all the other color experiences that COULD have happened but didn’t are attendant to (and even constitute to a degree) the color actually experienced. Blue MEANS, not red, not green etc. within the context of an existent possibility space of color geometry, which itself is a geometrically isolatable sub-modality within the context of a larger whole quale that is geometrically realized as single hyper-complex n-dimensional polytope.

[Kimani_White]

In recent years, I've been deeply investigating a variant of Jungian Typology called Socionics, and have come to the conclusion that it has great potential as a preliminary framework for a science of consciousness.

The theory takes the 4 initial dichotomies identified by Jung _(i.e. Sensing/iNtuition, Logic/Feeling, Introversion/Extraversion & Perceiving/Judging)_ to mathematically extrapolate the existence of 11 additional dichotimies. Fleshing out the semantics of this structure is an ongoing project and, despite its logical rigor, Socionics is still a ways away from being a fully developed scientific discipline. However, I think the gist of it all points to these dichotomous qualities as foundational aspects of conscious being itself, and not just features specific to human psychology.

[Starcell]

If we start from phenomenology and structuralize it well, let’s say color experience can be embedded in (R, G, B) space and discovered con cells representing RGB, then can we say we solved the hard problem of color consciousness? I don’t think so, but I don’t know why.