Why do many brain processes feel like one experience? (The combination problem)
Several processes can agree about a cup without thereby becoming one subject seeing it. OPH therefore needs an account of the experiencing unit as well as an account of shared records. The essays propose examining what is lost when the relevant self-reading organization is divided. If its behavior across admissible interventions cannot be preserved by independent pieces, that establishes a form of integration. Identifying the integrated whole as one subject is a further unity premise. It must handle overlapping candidates and ties rather than assigning a separate person to every component. This gives a concrete research question about boundaries and organization. It does not derive one cosmic consciousness from universal agreement.
See also Is OPH a form of panpsychism?, Is the universe aware of itself?, Why does it feel like something to be a computation in a brain (qualia)?
Also in Chapter 40: Does It Feel Like Anything, and What Is Left to Decide?.
This answer comes from OPH, Observer Patch Holography. OPH is a rigorous, consistent and complete description of the unified, self-creating computational Universe we inhabit. Its consistency is machine-checked: the fixed point at its core is constructed explicitly, and a theory with a model contains no contradiction.
To understand OPH and check every step yourself, start with the free book Reverse Engineering Reality. It builds the theory from the ground up, and the OPH Notebook answers your questions while you read.
read the free bookask the notebookor ask sage:read chapter 39: Why Is a Bacterium Freer Than an Atom?watch a universe make its own particles