[Preprint] Computational Experiential Monism: A panexperientialist-computational framework for consciousness (opens in new tab)

This article presents a novel panexperientialist-computational theory that dissolves the "hard problem" of consciousness. We argue that subjective experience is not an emergent product of matter, but its intrinsic nature (The Identity Postulate). The hard problem arises from a categorical error: the projection of a "marker of inertness"—a cognitive heuristic that models the world as non-experiential—onto the brain itself. The framework is built on five core postulates: (1) Experience-Matter I...