Consciousness as a brain function

[Alan V]

The hard problem's existence is more poorly demonstrated than any of the things hard problem accepters say can't explain consciousness.

We experience subjective states because we are subjective lifeforms.  Our various layers of evolved consciousness are simply registering what was already there before.  So I believe that the hard problem was not correctly framed for consciousness studies.

While there are all sorts of issues which are still unresolved in consciousness research, many difficult technical details, I personally don't count the "hard problem" as one of them.

So my solution, such as it is, is to transfer the hard problem from consciousness studies to life studies, where it really belongs IMO. I think it has more to do with biosemiotics, or how information can be organized by biology (DNA for example), than about consciousness per se.

Per Google: "Biosemiotics is a transdisciplinary field that investigates the study of meaning-making processes within living systems. It explores how signs, codes, and communication shape biological processes, from the molecular level to animal behavior and human cognition. Essentially, it examines how life is built upon and operates through various forms of semiosis, or the creation and interpretation of signs. "

The brain is a biosemiotic system because life is a biosemiotic system.