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Conscious vision, through spatial extension, provides knowledge of object materialization, compensating for neuro-computational limits. This paper explores how "thingness" underlies spatial extension, subjectivity, and phenomenal qualities in conscious experience.

Keywords:

extended information theory feature qualities phenomenal analysis phenomenal consciousness spatial extension thingness

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Neuroscience
Philosophy of Mind

Background:

Extended Information Theory posits conscious vision reveals object spatial extension.
Neuro-computational systems often process limited, point-like information.
Phenomenal experience involves spatial extension, subjectivity, and qualitative aspects.

Purpose of the Study:

Explore links between spatial extension, subjectivity, and phenomenal qualities.
Identify an underlying property for these aspects of experience.
Develop a coherent model for explaining consciousness.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis based on Extended Information Theory.
Identification of
thingness
as a foundational property.
Theoretical modeling of consciousness, subjectivity, and qualities.

Main Results:

Thingness
, the materialization of spatial extension, underlies consciousness.
Spatial extension provides immediate object knowledge.
Subjectivity arises from a first-person perspective encompassing a third-person world.
Qualities represent degrees of differentiation, explaining phenomenal character and transforming unconscious to conscious knowledge.

Conclusions:

Thingness
is proposed as a unifying property for spatial extension, subjectivity, and phenomenal qualities.
Conscious knowledge acquisition is linked to the extended nature of objectual content.
A hypothesis on the neural origins of phenomenal qualities is presented.