danielbigham

You are a physicist who seems very keen on understanding the fabric of the universe at the most primitive levels. I'm not sure I've ever heard your thoughts on consciousness/qualia. It seems very unique from matter, energy, space, and time, so presumably a theory of everything needs to account for it. Have you given it much thought?

I think he meant to say it verbally into his phone, not to type it into the web UI...

Thanks. It's a good point -- that symbolic representations are perhaps the best thing we have to model conscious experience, and those symbolic representations need not be tightly bound to any particular physics. I suppose one practical element in all of this is that any good symbolic representation of human discourse will need to model many aspects of the human experience... not unrelated to the grand challenge of understanding consciousness in a broader sense.