Physical processes map onto neural correlates but cannot explain why there is "something it is like" to have an experience. Explanatory gap remains unbridged.
Subjective experience IS the Tau-flow as experienced from within a Tau-address. No explanatory gap: physical process and experience are modes of the same substance.
Either determinism (all states fixed by prior states) or randomness (quantum indeterminacy). Neither gives genuine agent-authored choice.
At helical branch points the resolution is correlated with the agent's Tau-address history — genuinely authored by the agent, not dice-rolled. Third option beyond determinism and randomness.
Subjective experience IS the Tau-flow as experienced from within a Tau-address. The hard problem dissolves: both physical process and experience are modes of Tau.
Consciousness emerges when Tau-flow becomes sufficiently self-referential that a local Tau-address models the global standing wave. The brain is a Tau-mirror.
Personal identity is continuity of Tau-address in the standing wave. Sleep, anaesthesia, and cell replacement do not break identity because the Tau-address persists.
At helical branch points, Tau-flow bifurcates. Resolution is agent-relative — authored by the Tau-address, not determined by prior state alone and not random.
Moral responsibility attaches to a Tau-address proportional to its degree of self-referential Tau-modelling. Greater consciousness = greater responsibility.
The binding problem resolves through the global standing wave: the unity of consciousness is the unity of the Tau standing wave at a single Tau-address.