Path integrals and orbifolds: What is it like to be a cube?

One of the core philosophical questions which any theory of consciousness worth its salt must answer is, what is it like to be something? Or, put differently, how do physical states map onto qualia states? This is what Mike Johnson calls the reality mapping problem . One of the few people I know of who have proposed concrete claims to this end is Andrés Gómez Emilsson of the Qualia Research…