Here time turns into space: Does consciousness implement the fractional Fourier transform?

This post is co-authored with Andrés Gómez Emilsson , who has also been pursuing a similar line of thinking around fractional Fourier transforms for some time. I’d also like to say thanks to Hunter Meyer , Ethan Kuntz and Raimonds Jermaks from the Qualia Research Institute for the extensive discussions earlier this year; Qiaochu Yuan for pointing me at linear canonical transformations ; and Sloan…