I think the confusion about the Hard Problem of Consciousness results from people's intuition that they live in the physical world, not in a software simulation. It is not hard to see how software can represent the illusion of being a person, and how software can move your body.
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There are clearly algorithms that can run without generating 1st person phenomenology. What would be minimally be required for a system (hardware/set of algorithms) to generate first person qualia?
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Minimum hardware set to generate a qualia would be a sensor, process, and response to satisfy a driver.
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