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by orwin 652 days ago
No, planning, thinking, moving your body is not the hard problem, it's the "easy problem" just like processing information is. We see which part of your brain "lit" when you plan, when you order etc.

The "hard problem" is subjective experience (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_character_of_experi...), which is different. You can have different way of explaining it, and what GP is saying is a proto-illusionism, probably not as well thought as it could be, but philosophers wrote on this quite recently (the idea is from ~2010): https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journal/the-illusion-of...