The Echoes of a Sleeping Mind: Beyond the Hard Problem of Consciousness
We have spent centuries wrestling with the "hard problem" of consciousness, treating it as a philosophical riddle disconnected from our biological reality. We ask ourselves how neurons can possibly produce the feeling of seeing the color red, but perhaps that is the wrong question entirely. What if consciousness is not the riddle, but the answer to a more fundamental question: What is the difference between a living body and a lifeless stone? To solve this, we must untangle our thinking. We must separate Ontis, the fundamental, binary state of being alive, from consciousness, the rich, subjective experience that only emerges later.
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