The Hard Problem of consciousness is a stop-gap term for a deeper, more precise, and more solvable(!) problem buried within; a problem that a physicist would call the kinematical problem of consciousness.

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This short article will characterize the kinematical tension at the heart of the Hard Problem: a mismatch between our model of the universe and 2 specific qualities we implicitly ascribe to consciousness (qualities which may be called ‘classical indescribability’ & ‘non-emergent integration’.) Then, having reframed the Hard Problem as a precise & explicit problem of kinematics (physics), we’ll go on to motivate, outline, and reference an experimentally falsifiable resolution to the problem of consciousness.

Kinematics is all you need.