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The relationship between experience and physical reality is explored through various philosophical and physical frameworks, such as phenomenalism [1], the challenge of explaining their fundamental connection [2], and theories proposing that physical reality emerges from or is a product of experience {fact:3, fact:4, fact:5}.
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Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 3 facts
perspectiveDavid Chalmers argues that the view that experience is fundamental to physical reality is not forced by quantum mechanics, as there are ways to interpret quantum mechanics while maintaining that fundamental physical reality has an objective existence.
claimBilodeau proposes a physics-based approach to consciousness that abandons the idea of objectively existing states in fundamental physics, suggesting instead that physical reality crystallizes as a product of experience and inquiry.
claimBilodeau suggests that the view of experience as fundamental to physical reality is the most natural upshot of quantum mechanics, specifically appealing to the writings of Niels Bohr.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers suggests bypassing skeptical problems by giving us the physical world for free, though this leaves the essential character of the physical world and its relation to experience unexplained.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org 1 fact
claimMichael Pelczar (2023) defended phenomenalism by arguing that potentials for experience can also possess potentials to affect other potentials, allowing them to mirror the structure of the physical world as described by physics.