I don't think consciousness is emergent, to me that means mechanical aggregate properties do not add up to a subjective experience.
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The other possibility is that consciousness and subjective experience is a fundamental property of matter.
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In some inexplicable (to be attempted to made explicable) way, my mind wants to connect the concept of the waveform with having an internal experience.
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I'm most familiar with the particle in a box model and the double slit experiments which show that single particles "self interact" in addition to interacting with the environment, or rather, they have an underlying reality (waveform) that takes into account the whole system.
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It does seem like physics misses the point. If there's no room for conscious action (which does appear to be obviously real), physics can't possibly be complete (i.e. is it possible to change the stars?). Related: Have you read "I Am A Strange Loop"?
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I read GEB as a child. (What a god send! Which reminds me to keep a copy lying around for young people in my future.)
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I have an internal joke that it's the neocortex that wants to think it's responsible for conscious experience (it's not).
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Physicists well endowed with the analytical ability of the neocortex will tend to be very conceptual and objectively oriented. Thinking of non conceptual subjective experience as an inherent property of matter is a pretty big challenge to assumptions of that mode of operation.
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