The Hard Problem and explanatory gap may be symptoms of our metaphysical malnourishment, arising from conflating three distinct notions of reality.

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• The Hard Problem is likely unsolvable in 3rd person and should not stand as a barrier to progress.claim0.814
  Position that the Hard Problem should not halt applied sentience assessment.
• 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 isclaim0.801
  CIMC's distinctive position distinguishing itself from eliminativist and deflationary responses to the Hard Problem
• Problems of cognition (mind) and morphogenesis (body) share fundamental commonality in competent problem-solving.claim0.783
  Authors propose deep principle unifying neuroscience and developmental biology through goal-directed behavior as common thread.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.770
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.766
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• "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."quote0.758
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach
• A complete explanation of why phenomenology and function coincide that would address Hard Problem concerns has not yet been achievedconcept0.756
  CIMC's honest acknowledgment that articulating why phenomenology is the model remains an active open problem
• The deep feeling concerns the whole; practical issues are secondary and do not outweigh the wholeness.claim0.745