Paper 00 · Working paper
The Identification Problem for Physicalist Theories of Experience
The accessible entry point for the IER paper programme: why physicalism and neural correlation do not by themselves identify which physical event experience is.
- Status
- Working paper
- Author
- Michael Lehotay
- Date
- 09 August 2026
Abstract
Physicalism says that experience is physical, but does not identify which physical event experience is. Paper 00 names this missing step, distinguishes identity from correlation, causation, realization, and constitution, and presents IER's recurrently organized, self-maintaining constraint regime as a criticizable physical candidate rather than a consciousness detector.