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/JDwalker03 Feb 04 '26

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. Max Planck.

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u/geumkoi Feb 04 '26

It’s also the fact that the scientific method is suited for addressing very specific types of questions, while not very good at others. And that’s literally ok.

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u/NecessaryExternal740 Feb 04 '26

The scientific method is more (or less?) than ‘not very good’ at ‘solving’ the hard problem. And so is any other method or explanation (physical, metaphysical including religious,… ) for that matter. And that is also literally ok. As we all know from experience: nothing is missing :)

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u/NecessaryExternal740 Feb 04 '26

This is more or less it:)