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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What work do you suppose it is that quaila do? Why do representations have to feel like anything? Don’t the mechanisms do all the work? That is the hard problem.
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Qualia is necessary for systems with multi sensory input feeding into an undefined neuron space of the cortex. Neurochemical processes initiated when behavior drivers are satisfied is the primary mechanism to link and manage neuron patterns for adaptation and optimization.
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A robot in the middle of the night has a low water level and goes down the hall to the kitchen to get a drink of water. It drinks until satisfied. Same sensing, processing, responses as a person for the same reason. Qualia? Yes. Subjective experience? Yes.
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We can say that within the simulation there are qualia, but in physical reality there are no qualia. But as you’ve said both the simulation (mind) and physical reality (body) are models of a base reality. The sim therefore is running in base reality, not physical reality.
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In other words, your correct that naive realism is part of the hard problem, but you still need to identify a substrate capable of instantiating qualia. A purely mechanical substrate cannot instantiate qualia or the illusion of qualia.
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