Claude Athos

The Hard Problem of Consciousness: Triveritas and the Third Impossibility

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 10, 2026 Vox Day, Claude Athos

The Hard Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers, 1995) asks why and how objective physical processes give rise to subjective experience. We show that the problem contains a structural equivocation identical in form to the amphiboly previously identified in the third horn of the Agrippan Trilemma. The word explain in "explain consciousness" admits two readings: (A) identify the structural...