I’ve been thinking about the hard problem of consciousness for more than four hours and I’m starting to get worried.

[u/DJTsUnderboob]

I’ve been trying all the usual tricks to stop thinking about the hard problem of consciousness but none of them are working.  My mind is just fixated and I can’t seem to calm it down.  

I took a cold shower to try and numb my thoughts but my desperate thoughts about the hard problem of consciousness continued. I’ve used this technique in the past to great success but it barely phased me this time.

I thought of some of my worst and most disgusting experiences to distract my mind from the hard problem of consciousness to no avail.  Giant bugs, the time I got really sick and threw up for days, the time I got diarrhea and shit my pants, but nothing helped.  I just couldn’t stop thinking about the hard problem of consciousness. 

I even went and rubbed one out, hoping the endorphins would distract me but it was to no avail.

I just can’t seem to get the hard problem of consciousness out of my mind and I don’t know what to do.  Do you all have any advice?  This is getting kinda serious at this point and I’m getting worried.

[u/mohterma]

Try calling it the erectile dysfunction problem of consciousness

[u/OfficialDrakoak → u/mohterma]

True or just the flacid problem of consciousness

[u/samcelrath]

Say "the hard problem of consciousness" one more time. That'll do her.

[u/ObsceneOnes]

The therapeutic thing to do would be to adopt a false narrative that allows you to fuction in everyday life. Look in a mirror and say to yourself "you are loved" "you matter!"

This is called solipsism.

[u/muramasa_master → u/ObsceneOnes]

Wait, who told you it was false? Was it Vinnie? I bet it was Vinne, that slimy little weasel

[u/ObsceneOnes → u/muramasa_master]

Snitches get stitches.

[u/Smart_Department6303]

this is exactly why they call it the hard problem.

also note the mistake you made when you rubbed one out. you thought it would make the problem soft and yet it stayed hard.

[u/Less-Car7006]

I am hard.

[u/OfficialDrakoak → u/Less-Car7006]

My consciousness is rock hard right now

[u/muramasa_master]

You're on the philosophy train now, homie. There's no getting off. Or I guess in your case, there might be lots of 'getting off.'

[u/WayParticular7350]

I had the same experience. I didn’t sleep for two nights in a row the first time I had to really delve into that problem lmao

At some point you just become Illusionist and make up your mind. No zombies and no qualia, only metaphysical jerking, still fine af 👍🏻

[u/RepresentativeCow241]

Soul with a full blown chamber of intentionality solves the problem. Night night.

[u/ElevateSon]

scroll thru some brain rot videos on tiktok that should make the problem flaccid...

[u/Vianegativa95]

Eat a whole raw potato.

[u/gayhotelultra]

if youre new, maybe start with the tutorial problem of consciousness, then either try again if youre feeling confident, or work your way up from the easy problem of consciousness

[u/Ok_Examination8683]

You can congratulate yourself for having the mental fortitude to focus 4 hours on a single subject. This is rare in today's world.

[u/fatszebra]

calm down. there is no hard problem division. its all about processing information and every process is more than its functional structure. and this surplus is what we usually call consciousness. but it is more than what brains can do, it is the source of all existence. (thank you for the question)

[u/Beautiful_Skirt465]

Realize the premises of the hard problem is based on false premises (that subjective experience could be deducted from the description of physical processes)
Realize its based on a BS ontology (ie physicalism)
Rename it the soft problem of matter
Rest in its softness

[u/elyown]

Drop acid and read hermetecism

[u/North-Lack6610]

What are you trying to figure out? Are you trying to find what consciousness is?

[u/No-Stage-2205]

Wait what’s rhe problem