Gary Blaise
Sep 13, 2021

Thanks for your excellent presentation, though, it seems (many?) physicalists think consciousness is a physical effect. Wouldn’t that make the semantic problem you present go away?

But going further, I suspect that consciousness is actually an abstract effect . . . and that true abstraction cannot emerge from a physical thing. If so, is the “hard problem” actually an impossible problem? TMI for here but, if interested, you can peruse an unfortunately dense (but short!) summary of this idea under my name here in Medium—the one about consciousness.