There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'
The article discusses the ongoing debate surrounding consciousness and its relationship to the physical world. It argues that consciousness is not separate from the body and that our understanding of it is influenced by historical perspectives. The author suggests that the complexity of consciousness is akin to other natural phenomena that remain difficult to fully comprehend.
- ▪Consciousness is intertwined with the physical world, challenging traditional views of a separate soul.
- ▪The debate on consciousness reflects cultural fears of losing a transcendent identity.
- ▪Understanding consciousness is complicated, similar to other natural phenomena that elude complete explanation.
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| Original publisher | NOEMA |
| Canonical URL | https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 02:59:34 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T03:40:24.010Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-18T03:47:25.555Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | QmG-Ritm3e58 · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’ Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world. Florian Meissner for Noema Magazine EssayPhilosophy & Culture By Carlo Rovelli May 7, 2026 Credits Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist known for his work on quantum gravity, the foundation of quantum mechanics and the nature of space and time. A fierce debate is raging around the slippery notion of consciousness. It retraces a trotted pattern of cultural resistance: We humans are often scared by anything that may disturb our image of ourselves. Famously, Darwin’s realization that we have common ancestors with all living organisms on our planet met ferocious resistance.
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