The QBIT theory of consciousness: Entropy and qualia

Beshkar, Majid

doi:10.1007/s12124-022-09684-6

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“…This is, simultaneously, the quantum of affective distinction (Volchenkov, 2010 ) and the template for a personal Umwelt, through which a subject experiences one's individual becoming (Surov, 2022 ). Stressing its qualitative nature (i.e., the impossibility of direct measurement), analogous thing called quale (Palmer, 1999 ; Haikonen, 2009 ; Beshkar, 2022 ) is a unit of recently considered “qualia space” (Balduzzi and Tononi, 2009 ; Resende, 2022 ), ascending to Jamesian “mind-stuff” (James, 1890 ; ch.VI) and Riemannian “mind mass” (Riemann, 1900 ).…”

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Quantum core affect. Color-emotion structure of semantic atom

Surov

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Psychology suffers from the absence of mathematically-formalized primitives. As a result, conceptual and quantitative studies lack an ontological basis that would situate them in the company of natural sciences. The article addresses this problem by describing a minimal psychic structure, expressed in the algebra of quantum theory. The structure is demarcated into categories of emotion and color, renowned as elementary psychological phenomena. This is achieved by means of quantum-theoretic qubit state space, isomorphic to emotion and color experiences both in meaning and math. In particular, colors are mapped to the qubit states through geometric affinity between the HSL-RGB color solids and the Bloch sphere, widely used in physics. The resulting correspondence aligns with the recent model of subjective experience, producing a unified spherical map of emotions and colors. This structure is identified as a semantic atom of natural thinking—a unit of affectively-colored personal meaning, involved in elementary acts of a binary decision. The model contributes to finding a unified ontology of both inert and living Nature, bridging previously disconnected fields of research. In particular, it enables theory-based coordination of emotion, decision, and cybernetic sciences, needed to achieve new levels of practical impact.

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