While the original article presents a compelling case for the hard problem of consciousness, I want to argue that the "hardness" of the problem is an artefact of our conceptual framework rather than a genuine...
I'm sympathetic but I think the semantic point you brush past in §3 does more work than you're crediting it with. The Hardness might just BE a fact about the conceptual vocabulary, not the world.
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A clean piece — I particularly liked the way you framed the move from {X} to {Y}.
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The deflationary move is attractive, but I worry it concedes the explanatory gap too quickly. Have you read Levine's reply to Stoljar? I'd be interested in how you'd push back on that line.
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Persuasive overall, though I'm not sure the final paragraph closes as tightly as the rest of the piece.
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