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Language, Not Consciousness, Is the Hard Problem
The provided text, an excerpt from an essay titled "The Hard Problem Was Never Consciousness" on the Philosophics blog, argues that the central difficulty in the philosophy of mind is not consciousness itself, but rather the limitations of language used to discuss it. The author, Bry Willis, traces this idea back to 2018 when documenting the Language Insufficiency Hypothesis (LIH), which posits that words like "identity," "selfhood," and "free will" cannot bear the conceptual load placed upon them. Willis critiques prominent philosophers, including Daniel Dennett and David Chalmers…
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