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Grammar, Mediation, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
The provided text, an excerpt from the work "MEOW: Solving Consciousness's Hard Problem with Grammar" by language philosopher Bry Willis, argues that the "hard problem of consciousness" is not a genuine metaphysical dilemma but an artefact manufactured by faulty grammar and conceptual framing within the English language. Willis introduces the MEOW framework (Mediated Encounter Ontology of the World) to dissolve the problem by treating experience as an encounter manifesting through layered mediations rather than assuming a gap between two substances ("mind" and "world"). These layers are…
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