Qualia and Phenomenal Character
M-E3-21
structural canonical
mind consciousness self agency
External: philosophical foundational debate
τ response: structurally constrained
What are qualitative features of experience, and how do they relate to representation, embodiment, and shared language?
Current τ response
See the paired Qualia and Phenomenal Character — Challenge Response on the Results lane for the program's current response status, registry evidence, verification route, and external-review boundary.
Current status: structurally constrained.
Challenge statement
What are qualitative features of experience, and how do they relate to representation, embodiment, and shared language?
Why this challenge is in the ledger
Tests whether τ preserves first-person givenness without making it ineffable and unreachable.
Tests whether τ preserves first-person givenness without making it ineffable and unreachable.
τ-facing burden
Route through phenomenological correlate fields, lived-experience instantiation, consciousness architecture.
First reviewer questions
- Does τ produce extensional results for qualia and phenomenal character?
- Are the τ register routings genuinely informative or merely renaming?
- What external philosophical review would settle the open questions?
Source anchors
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