My thoughts on the Hard problem of consciousness

[bennyboy]

This to me then suggests that the fault lays with the use of philosophy. You're using the wrong tool for the job.

You have to find the right paradigm to suit the problem.

There is no better tool than experience itself. You, I know, will suggest science-- but science will do no better than philosophy, at least until you have invented the Qualiometer 3000™ which can tell what physical systems do/do not experience qualia. Until then, qualia cannot really be said to exist at all, at least in scientific terms, unless you beg the question by redefining them in terms of neural correlates.

Until self-reflection is considered the prime method of understanding the self, we will be trying to fit a round block through a square hole. And that's neither the job of science or even of common sense.