David Chalmers named the "Hard Problem" of consciousness in the mid-1990s, though the question is ancient. In his words, "Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does." In this members-only recording, Bonnie and Zach walk step by step through Bonnie's model of mind in preparation for her upcoming panel presentation at the UTOK Consilience Conference. Bonnie defines three things: The nature of mind—what is required to have a mind at all: the connection between arousal states and actions that satisfy them, and how different types of arousal states and actions give rise to different kinds of mind The defining characteristics of "levels" of mind in her model, from atomic particles to humans The preexisting world structural orders that each level of mind requires to operate and the new world structural order it creates
Zach probes Bonnie's structure with clarifying questions and engages her model with classic arguments from analytic philosophy about the hard problem of consciousness. They discuss the difference between "solving" the hard problem and simply avoiding it while clarifying the metaphysical "malware" that gives rise to the hard problem itself.
Bonnitta Roy On The Nature Of Mind & The Hard Problem Bonnitta Roy on the Nature of Mind and the Hard Problem of Consciousness | Metaphysical Malware