First work on Subjective Experience and Temporal dynamics
The core idea is that subjective experience emerges from the complex interplay between contextual information and the flow of time across multiple scales. It challenges reductive or overly simplified views by proposing a rich, interdependent framework. Firstly, we represent subjective experience (SE) as a function that maps contextual information (C) and temporality (T) onto a manifold of experienced subjective states: SE = f(C, T) The contextual information matrix (C) encodes diverse factors like sensory inputs, memories, cognitive models, environmental stimuli etc. It's a high-dimensional tapestry: C = [c1, c2, c3, ...cn] However, rather than treating time (T) as a simple linear parameter, the model incorporates the key insight that different temporal scales and moments contribute variously to shaping experience. This is achieved via a time weighting function w(T) that dynamically weights the influence of each time point. The evolution of SE then becomes: dSE/dT = f(C(T), w(T)) ...