You can say that. But you end by reasserting the privacy of pain. And …

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen


You just cannot have it both ways.


N

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On Oct 3, 2026, at 2:26 PM, [email protected] wrote:

Claude was not happy about the theorem proofs that Gemini created. And Jon 
also mentioned that they are not waterproof. So I asked Claude and Gemini if 
they could write a new proof. They could. I asked them if we could use gauge 
theory to explain subjective experience - gauge invariance to describe 
objectivity, and symmetry breaking for subjectivity. Both Claude and Gemini 
said yes, and Claude was able to formulate a proof that both could agree on 
(combining two AIs which have different personalities often gives better 
results than just using one). Gemini is curious and creative, Claude is 
accurate and precise. The result was a proof for a theorem of a new "field 
theory of understanding". I understand only half of the mathematics, but the 
physicist who use gauge theory for quantum field theories also understand only 
half of it.

I have uploaded the new proofs here. The theorems are named the same, only the 
proofs are different. If they are more convincing than the old ones, then the 
idea is to replace the proofs in the appendix with this version. In my opinion 
the solution to the hard problem looks similar to this - in combination with 
the other things written in the rest of the book.
https://jochenfromm.github.io/PhilosophyBook/QualiaTheorems.pdf

Paradoxically the qualia part that is most mysterious for some researchers is 
not a problem for others at all. Nick for example wrote he does not believe in 
qualia and sees emotions as regulations. In a post he argued "To me, pain is an 
emergency organization of my behavior in which I deploy physical and social 
defenses of various sorts.... To me, the question, “What is it like to be X?”, 
has been fully answered when you have said where X-like people can be found and 
what they will be doing there... for me, feeling is a kind of doing, an 
exploring of the world". I would agree to most of it but for me what an animal 
is doing alone gives us only a hint what it feels. If a horse for example is 
injured and feels pain, it does not scream or cry, and you see no tears. Only 
if you know the animal well you realize that the behavior is slightly 
different, for example by the things it is not doing. I am certain animals feel 
pain just as intense as we do, but it is hard to recognize from th
eir behavior alone. If it would be better visible, would we still eat pigs and 
cows in large amounts (this reminds me of "Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear 
Cows" from Melanie Joy)?

-J.

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