A thermodynamic approach to the problem of consciousness

Publication date: Available online 7 February 2018
Source:Medical Hypotheses
Author(s): Majid Beshkar
What is the nature of qualia? Why qualia are subjective? This article is an attempt to provide speculative answers to these questions based on what we know about thermodynamics. The proposed answer to the first question is that qualia are self-organized structures built by exported entropy. The proposed answer to the second question is that qualia are subjective because entropy-decreasing phenomena cannot be observed physically.



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