AUTHOR=Manzotti Riccardo TITLE=Mind-Object Identity: A Solution to the Hard Problem JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=10 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00063 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00063 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=

Here I present a mind-object identity theory based on a straightforward hypothesis: One's experience of an object is identical with the object itself. To defend this hypothesis, I will reconsider the notion of a physical object in terms of relative and actual properties. To address cases of misperception such as dreams and hallucinations, I will also reconsider the notion of present in relative terms. Both the object and the present are recast as object-relative.