The Disclosive Cut: Toward a Resolution of the Hard Problem
The system's primary engagement with philosophy of mind; argues the hard problem is an artifact of mislocating the disclosive/structural cut.
Abstract
The hard problem of consciousness is typically framed as an explanatory gap between physical description and phenomenal experience. I argue this framing is incorrect: what appears as a gap is the structural consequence of applying to the disclosive layer a mode of description appropriate only to the structural layer. I introduce the notion of carried incoherence to explain how worldframes can sustain this tension without dissolution, and show that Mary's new knowledge upon leaving the black-and-white room is disclosive, not propositional.
Concepts employed
Conditions of Intelligibility Structural
Carried Incoherence Full
Worldframe Structural
Monad Minimal