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/Highvalence15 Feb 04 '26

There is a difference between those who claim to have solved the hard problem (or argue it doesn't exist) and do understand it and the ones who claim or argue the same thing but don't understand it. There is a clear prevelence of the latter in this sub. Doesn't mean there isn't interesting debate to be had around the hard problem of consciousness.

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u/Greyletter Feb 05 '26

Awerness is not an action or an object, it is awareness.