Qualia Field Parameters and Confounding of Neural Code

Abstract

The paper proposes the five (5) parameters of qualia and how they contribute to the generation of subjective experience. The qualia chosen for analysis are colour perception, auditory perception, olfactory perception, gustatory perception, pain, temperature, orgasm and emotion (fear). The paper further explain how amplified and sustainable local cortical activity or activity of an attractor state/ resonant loops (Orpwood, 2013) or neural code through attention gives rise to qualia which are governed by five (5) parameters of qualia field. All five (5) parameters of qualia together locate and generate qualia experience. The above qualia are scaled against each other on the basis of the five (5) parameters. The paper analyses the epistemology of explanatory gap in the “hard problem of consciousness”. The paper also discusses the generation of self in the qualia field and reviews few alternate models of consciousness. The paper proposes that the parameters of qualia converge ultimately to one single neuron. This paper analyses the neuronal codes as a confounding of many codes, each of a separate parameter to generate a “pixel” of quale in the qualia field. The author proposes a minimum of four primary parameters (one secondary parameter – secondary impression not analysed in this study) necessary to locate a quale in the qualia field. The study focuses only on the visual perception and its temporal neuronal code.