There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
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Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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