the key word, the whole question, the only reason anyone is asking, is “seem to”. that’s where our inquiry flows from. and I think it gets resolved by something about structures representing other structures. neuroscience stuff, mental representation, etc. the “easy problem” ends up being mostly about “so, what lead to this structure forming those references and keeping them up to date?” which is an empirical question about how stuff impacting nerves gets integrated in a way that matches the external structure, and the hard problem is just “why do any structures get the privilege of existing” + “why locality”
another way to put this is, why are these atoms aware of more than just the brute fact of existence?
the key word, the whole question, the only reason anyone is asking, is “seem to”. that’s where our inquiry flows from. and I think it gets resolved by something about structures representing other structures. neuroscience stuff, mental representation, etc. the “easy problem” ends up being mostly about “so, what lead to this structure forming those references and keeping them up to date?” which is an empirical question about how stuff impacting nerves gets integrated in a way that matches the external structure, and the hard problem is just “why do any structures get the privilege of existing” + “why locality”
another way to put this is, why are these atoms aware of more than just the brute fact of existence?