The Hard Problem: "What it's like to be a Category Error" – A Biological Forensic Audit of the Experiencer
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) September 21, 2026 Steven Tyler preprint
Before asking why experience occurs for an experiencer, one must first ask what that experiencer is and why it has been exempted from the explanandum. The canonical hard-problem formulation places the experiencer in a primitive explanatory position; this paper subjects that placement to a biological and causal-temporal audit. Rather than treating the familiar narrator-level “I” as an antecedent...