Toward a Reframing of the Hard Problem of Consciousness: Subjective Reality, Feeling, and the Origins of the Conceptual World A Philosophical and Cognitive Scientific Investigation
Hakan Saka preprint
The hard problem of consciousness may be, in part, a problem of conceptual conflation: we treat multiple distinct layers of mind as a single phenomenon, and then wonder why it seems impossible to explain. This paper proposes a framework designed to disaggregate those layers — not to solve the hard problem, but to relocate it into the most precise domain to which it genuinely applies. Central to...