(February 13, 2017 at 5:51 am)Mathilda Wrote: I've never seen an adequate explanation for why consciousness should be considered a hard problem.
It's only hard for us because we're using our own brain to understand itself.
It's hard because no philosophical view easily reconciles the conflation of subject and object into a single framework. Idealism misses much of the simple truths that science arrives at; dualism has the problem of bridging; physicalism can't really explain subjective experience at all.
The equation of brain function with qualia, for example, is not so easy as it might seem at first.
