The Conversion Theory
Brain-Computer Interfaces, the Qualia Problem and the Irreversible Conversion
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 25. September 2026
230 pages
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978-3-8394-7839-4 (ISBN)
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Qualia - the vivid hues of subjective experience - emerge from an irreversible neural alchemy. Objective sensory data streams into the brain, where amygdala and hippocampus forge it into private phenomenology through profound process dualism. Brain-computer interfaces capture upstream signals with stunning precision yet hit an »epistemic firewall«: the downstream qualia remain sealed, their essence lost in conversion. Karl Johannes Lierfeld analyzes this physicalist extension that reveals why sentience defies objectification, bridging philosophy of mind and neuroscience without metaphysical escape hatches. Conversionism charts the hard problem's structural limits.
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Brain-Computer Interfaces, the Qualia Problem and the Irreversible Conversion
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Karl Johannes Lierfeld, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Deutschland
Karl Johannes Lierfeld (Dr.), born in 1977, works as a writer of non-fiction books and is an entrepreneur. With his start-up HABITATO he founded a dual-use 3D printing enterprise for terrestric and exraterrestric applications. In 2025 HABITATO became industrial partner for an ESA/Fraunhofer research project about lunar digital twins. 2026 Lierfeld finished his second dissertation at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
