TITLE:
Structures of Confinements as an Empirical Property of Consciousness and a Fundamental Property in Physics
AUTHORS:
Nikolai Lyng
KEYWORDS:
Consciousness, Ontology, Confinement, Entities, Modeling Physics
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.6 No.1,
February
29,
2016
ABSTRACT: Our consciousness is confined to experience our own thoughts. By subjectively investigating associations between conscious experiences from different senses, it can be shown how confinement must be an existing property relating to smaller parts of our conscious experiences as well. In this article, it is investigated how entities confining other entities may serve as fundamental building blocks of physics and consciousness. The model evolves by changing the structure of confinements. It turns out that classical mechanics, relativity, quantum mechanics, non-locality, and a solution to the measurement problem in quantum mechanics follow from the definition of this model. The model also clarifies how different conscious experiences can be determined by different physical states, which is related to the hard problem of consciousness.