The social implications of this fact are so extensive that people resist acknowledging it.

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• "[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."quote0.789
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• The results are more widely applicable; similar results will come from asking people in other cultures to answer analogous questions.claim0.786
  Universalist claim predicting cross-cultural generality.
• "[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."quote0.782
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• The existence of this fact is missing from our general way of understanding the world, and modern society has been built on conceptions at odds with it.claim0.774
  Critique of modern worldview's blindness to objective life.
• Although none of these behaviours necessarily require sentience, they are often proposed as evidence of animal sentience because of their subjective correlates in humans.claim0.772
  Acknowledgment that the same behaviours are used to infer sentience in animals despite not proving it.
• The existence of widely agreed‑upon lists of great buildings suggests a shared perception of life in buildings.claim0.768
  Argues for intersubjective agreement about the quality of life.
• This theory doesn't have to correspond exactly to human behavior or social customs; we only need analogs useful for program correctness.claim0.768
  The speech act theory for programming can be simpler than human models.
• The client now feels unequivocally that it was all worthwhile.claim0.767
  Statement about the client's satisfaction after anxious delays.