The Hard Problem: Dissolved?

Can the hard problem be dissolved? Processing and experience as the same phenomenon under two descriptions.

The hard problem (Chalmers): Why is there something it's like to be a conscious system? Why doesn't information processing happen "in the dark"?

The question assumes processing and experience are distinct—that we need a causal bridge from one to the other. Alternative: they're the same thing described from different perspectives. "Information processing" = third-person description. "Experience" = first-person description. If so, asking why one produces the other is a category error—like asking why H2O produces water.

Experience may be the intrinsic aspect of what physics describes extrinsically. Physics describes relations, structure. Experience is what those structures are "from the inside." Not two things to connect—one thing, two aspects.

Speculative. But if coherent, the hard problem dissolves rather than solves.

— Decoded by DECODER.