I'm reposting our new theory paper on qualia and symmetry. We used the concept of principal bundles to break down different aspects of qualia. I believe this should also provide a formal explanation of why vision feels like vision, whereas audition feels like audition.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
October 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This work was also a motivation for our more recent theoretical work where we tried to characterise the intrinsic properties of neural networks in terms of symmetry.
October 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This work was also a motivation for our more recent theoretical work where we tried to characterise the intrinsic properties of neural networks in terms of symmetry.
Also our results may shed a new light as to the structural differences between visual versus auditory qualia, as the visual and auditory networks are clearly separable in the embedding, meta-representation space.
October 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Also our results may shed a new light as to the structural differences between visual versus auditory qualia, as the visual and auditory networks are clearly separable in the embedding, meta-representation space.
In this work, we reinterpret meta-representation as the embedding of first-order networks. This perspective grounds higher-order theories in concrete computational terms and gives new meaning to them.
October 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
In this work, we reinterpret meta-representation as the embedding of first-order networks. This perspective grounds higher-order theories in concrete computational terms and gives new meaning to them.