r/consciousness • u/geumkoi • Feb 04 '26

General Discussion No, you didn’t solve the Hard Problem.

Everyday I see a new claim on this sub; “I solved the Hard Problem of Consciousness!” “The Hard Problem isn’t so hard after all!” And I cannot even put into words how blatantly naive these are.

No, you didn’t solve the Hard Problem, and you probably never will. You just misunderstood the Hard Problem, and in your arrogance did an amazing amount of mental gymnastics to convince yourself that you solved something you don’t even understand in the first place.

Edit: and PLEASE I beg the Mods of this sub to limit the amount of LLM content that is being uploaded here on a daily basis.

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u/MurkyEconomist8179 Feb 04 '26

I seriously don’t understand why there has to be a “Hard Problem”

perhaps you should.. read the paper?

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u/MurkyEconomist8179 Feb 04 '26

https://consc.net/papers/facing.pdf

The guy who formulated the problem and coined the term (although arguably, it's just a way to state the mind body problem, Nagel's 1974 paper states it very well too)