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The challenge of the Hard Problem is not in explaining it away but in giving an account of phenomenality as the specific kind of structured representation it is

CIMC's distinctive position distinguishing itself from eliminativist and deflationary responses to the Hard Problem

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Hard Problem Of Consciousness
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Chalmers' problem: why structural/functional criteria should correlate with subjective experience; acknowledged as unsolvable in 3rd person.

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The Hard Problem is likely unsolvable in 3rd person and should not stand as a barrier to progress.claim0.836
Position that the Hard Problem should not halt applied sentience assessment.
The Hard Problem and explanatory gap may be symptoms of our metaphysical malnourishment, arising from conflating three distinct notions of reality.claim0.801
Author's interpretive diagnosis of why consciousness seems philosophically intractable
It is precisely those innovations which attempt to change the system of processes most deeply, that are hardest for society to accept, and therefore hardest to implement.claim0.776
Simple problems require systems that expose simple solutions; forcing complex solutions signals misaligned abstraction level.claim0.775
Parlog's merge process for client-server is unnecessarily complex; Linda's tuple operations remain flexible across problem variants.
"It is certainly very hard, and perhaps impossible, for mere humans to anticipate and rule out in advance all the disastrous ways the machine could choose to achieve a specified objective."quote0.774
Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach
The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.769
Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
Parallel programming needn't be terribly difficult, but 'thinking in simultaneities' as in message-passing is calculated to make it difficult.claim0.761
Asserts that Linda's uncoupled style reduces cognitive load.
What was difficult or impossible as a larger act of social transformation becomes possible when one uses a genetic approach of small snippets.claim0.758
Summarizes the practical advantage of breaking complex new processes into small, individually adoptable sequences.