Corrigendum: Don't forget the boundary problem! How EM field topology can address the overlooked cousin to the binding problem for consciousness.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.

The heavy-tailed valence hypothesis: the human capacity for vast variation in pleasure/pain and how to test it.

Introduction: Wellbeing policy analysis is often criticized for requiring a cardinal interpretation of measurement scales, such as ranking happiness on an integer scale from 0-10. The commonly-used scales also implicitly constrain the human capacity for experience, typically that our most intense experiences can only be at most ten times more intense than our mildest experiences. This paper presents the alternative "heavy-tailed valence" (HTV) hypothesis: the notion that the accessible human capacity for emotional experiences of pleasure and pain spans a minimum of two orders of magnitude.

Don't forget the boundary problem! How EM field topology can address the overlooked cousin to the binding problem for consciousness.

The boundary problem is related to the binding problem, part of a family of puzzles and phenomenal experiences that theories of consciousness (ToC) must either explain or eliminate. By comparison with the phenomenal binding problem, the boundary problem has received very little scholarly attention since first framed in detail by Rosengard in 1998, despite discussion by Chalmers in his widely cited 2016 work on the combination problem. However, any ToC that addresses the binding problem must also address the boundary problem.