The Hard Problem of Consciousness: How Are Qualia Produced? A View That the Premise Is Flawed
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-07-30
The author argues that the common framing of the hard problem (how qualia are produced by neural activity) is flawed, comparing it to asking how meanings are produced by shapes and phonemes of words.
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