Abstract
Can the qualia of consciousness be described as a computation? If it were possible to provide an objective description of qualia, how should such a description be formally expressed? Here we show that attempting to construct such a formal description of qualia generates a series of obstructions due application of Godel's theorems, thereby leading to the conclusion that qualia are fundamentally non-computable. We then suggest an alternative description based on distributional processes. However, this severely restricts formal axiomatic expressibility. In other words, if certain attributes of phenomenal states are of a distributional type, then those attributes fail any objective description based on computation.
Xerxes D. Arsiwalla