"Unveiling the Connection: Physics Reveals the Bond Between Consciousness and Brain Activity"
A new paper argues that Einstein's theory of relativity suggests that qualia, the elements of subjective experience, must be located in the same place as their neural correlates in the brain. According to the theory, if something shares a time with a physical event in all reference frames, it also shares that physical event's location. Since qualia share times with their neural correlates in all reference frames, they must share their correlates' locations. This challenges dualist theories that posit qualia as separate from neural correlates and suggests that qualia follow the same causal rules as everything else in space.