Insolvability Of The Hard Problem-FAQ

Insolvability Of The Hard Problem FAQ

If physics is treated as a formal language, its vocabulary consists of quantities that can be defined by reference to standard operations or artefacts: kilogram, coulomb, metre, etc. Every physical law is built from relations among those quantities.

The moment physics is asked to handle a concept that has no reference operation, the language simply has no symbols to express it. It’s not a failure of knowledge; it’s a category error. Consciousness, in that strict sense, belongs to a different semantic loop.

 Physicists often do not worry about this because they rarely have to define what an experience is. Philosophers of mind, on the other hand, tend to work with abstract logic and may not appreciate how tightly physics constrains itself to measurable entities. The result is that neither camp quite sees the logical disconnect that is described in the Two Loops Argument

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