Sjöberg Tala, Camilo: A Neurophenomenological Framework for Adjudicating Constitutive, Causal, and Correlational Interpretations of Phenomenological Presence: The AFH Architecture

Consciousness research has long been organised around the “hard problem”: explaining why physical processes are accompanied by subjective experience. This framing presupposes a production relation between neural processes and phenomenological presence, treating the explanatory gap as independently motivated. This paper argues that such presupposition may obscure a more tractable empirical question and proposes instead that the central task is to adjudicate empirically among three interpretive po