[ExI] There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’

[John Clark]

On Sat, May 9, 2026 at 11:52 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> We don't need to explain why "red" looks red, but we do need to
> understand which of all our descriptions of stuff in the brain is a
> description of redness. *
>

*I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. You could find a molecule that
absorbs red light but not blue light and a slightly different molecule that
absorbs blue light but not red light, but that won't help you understand
the jump between objective and subjective.  I have never been clear about
what exactly would satisfy you that the problem has been solved, I think
you'd keep asking "why" questions forever, or until you hit a brute fact. *

* John K Clark*
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