Skepdick wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 6:38 am
owl of Minerva wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:08 pm
I don’t get your point. You appear to be making a mountain out of a molehill.
Nothing like that. I am equating your mountain (or a molehill) to an equivalent mountain (or a molehill).
owl of Minerva wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:08 pm
The simple answer to what is ‘a hard problem’ is: It is not an easy problem with an easy solution.
Notice how the word "problem" appears in both the question AND the answer? That's a circular answer.
Without boring you with the technical details of
left recursion I'll simply ask you the question (again)...
What IS c̶o̶n̶s̶c̶i̶o̶u̶s̶n̶e̶s̶s̶ a problem?
In simple terms what is consciousness is a problem because science and philosophy are not far enough advanced yet to understand the electromagnetic field. Is it a vacuum with one electricity or five, being as there are five elements and five senses? Is the gross electricity of nature the only electricity?
If the electrified magnetic field is responsible for the three forces: strong, neutral and weak do they each have five attributes from the five electricities of the electromagnetic field? Hence five elements and five senses in the material world where only the weak force is manifested and visible, although impacted on by all three forces and their attributes?
We may be at the end of this particular age before some of these questions are answered, likely no more will be known than an understanding of the attributes of the three forces and the role they play in nature including mankind, an understanding of human consciousness. In a further age on that knowledge being accessed humanity will likely be ready to consider magnetism and its origin. If the electromagnetic field is polarized, as it must be to be a field, what polarizes it? What is magnetism itself and what is its origin?
It likely could take another age further to answer what is Consciousness Itself, the foregoing questions have to be answered first. And answering them is the so-called ‘hard problem.’ We are not concerned here with the literalism of ‘left recursion’. Reality does not lend itself to literalism but does lend itself to investigation and insight.
Thinking it all happens in the brain, the processing center, with neurons firing and certain areas causing certain outcomes is not going to answer what is human consciousness much less what is Cosmic Consciousness.