Hard Problem and Free Will: An Information-Theoretical Approach
Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano, Federico Faggin
Abstract
Abstract We explore definite theoretical assertions about consciousness, starting from a non-reductive psycho-informational solution of David Chalmers's hard problem , based on the hypothesis that a fundamental property of “information" is its experience by the supporting “system". The kind of information involved in consciousness needs to be quantum for multiple reasons, including its intrinsic privacy and its power of building up thoughts by entangling qualia states. As a result we reach a quantum-information-based panpsychism, with classical physics supervening on quantum physics, quantum physics supervening on quantum information, and quantum information supervening on consciousness.
Topics & Concepts
QualiaConsciousnessTheoretical physicsQuantumQuantum informationQuantum information scienceFree willPhysicsEpistemologyQuantum mechanicsPhilosophyComputer scienceCognitive sciencePsychologyQuantum entanglementQuantum Mechanics and ApplicationsQuantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureQuantum Information and Cryptography