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@rihaan2901 , thank you for this ambitious work! I like that you’ve given readers computations to explore alongside the philosophical ideas, and that you’re careful about what the results establish.
The step I’m trying to understand is what connects the persistence you measure to having an experience. Nagel’s What Is It Like to Be a Bat? seems directly relevant here - I didn’t see it in the references. How might your framework help us approach that distinction? How do we go from persistence to consciousness?
I’m also curious how you see your quantum models in relation to Penrose and Hameroff’s Orch OR (Orchestrated objective reduction). Or any other efforts to make connection to a measurable experimental notions. I’d love to see where you think the first test of its connection to consciousness could begin.
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