Is There a Hard Problem of Consciousness… and of Everything Else?
Philosopher Dr. Kane Baker argues that there are hard problems of liquidity, white walls, balls, and, indeed, “everything”. He cites three examples: (1) There’s a logical possibility that “you have the same H₂O microstructure, but you just don’t have liquidity”. (2) You can look at a white wall, and yet it doesn’t “manifest as an experience of whiteness”. (3) It’s even logically possible that a “second billiard ball”, after being hit by another billiard ball, “explodes, or suddenly shrinks and disappears”.
(i) Introduction
(ii) Philosophical Why-Questions
(iii) The Hard Problem of Consciousness
(iv) The Hard Problem of Liquidity
(v) The Hard Problem of White Walls
(vi) The Hard Problem of Balls
This essay is a commentary on Dr. Kane Baker’s YouTube presentation ‘The Hard Problem of Everything’. (On YouTube, Baker is known as Kane B.) I copied his spoken words from the YouTube ‘Show transcript’ function. Thus, I needed to edit his words a little in order to make them more readable. However, I didn’t change any of Baker’s philosophical content.
[The words “the hard problem of consciousness” were coined by the philosopher David Chalmers.]
