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Qualia Formalism and a Symmetry Theory of Valence · opentheory.net

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A condensed and updated presentation of Qualia Formalism and the Symmetry Theory of Valence.

Original PDF; original announcement Michael Edward Johnson [email protected] June 16, 2023 Abstract § If consciousness is amenable to formalization, symmetry within the formalism is likely to play a significant compositional, functional, and aesthetic role. We survey the current state of affective neuroscience and consciousness research, then offer a theoretical and experimental paradigm constructed around (1) Qualia Formalism and (2) the symmetry aesthetic inherited from physics and mathematics. The initial pilot of this approach is the Symmetry Theory of Valence (STV): the symmetry of…

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