The “hard problem” is only a problem for those who fail to place organismic affect (homeostatic, emotional affect) at the foundation of their model. Once you conceptualize subjective experiences as an emergent characteristic of affect, the hard problem vanishes completely.
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I’m not certain what you mean by this. If the “self” isn’t experiencing pleasurable/unpleasurable hedonic affect, then how would you label or characterize what IS experiencing those affects?
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Your question implies 1. that the observer is somehow different than the observed fundamentally 2. There is no observer without the observed and vice versa. Difficult to grasp logically (until one does). I hope that I've worded this sufficiently - but may not have. Apologies.
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Agree. Capital S *Self* is used in some circles to point to something else ( e.g Capital A awareness - which is a word often conflated with capital C consciousness by still others). This is the kind of situation that led to LW's Tractatus.
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