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Hard Problem May Be Cognitive Quirk

The hard problem of consciousness (why information-processing neurons feel like something) may not be a genuine scientific puzzle but a quirk of how our minds reflect on themselves; the mind examining itself is naturally puzzled because the part doing the articulating is part of the very thing it is trying to explain, so this is a case where human intuition hits a wall like the nature of time or before the Big Bang.

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Steven Pinker

Evidence Quote

I think there are some cases where human intuition hits a wall and this is one of them. The nature of time. What could have been before the Big Bang... There’s no reason to think that every aspect of reality will be intuitive.

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Steven PinkerConversations with Tyler
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:34:01 AM

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