>>14430039Humans have separate brain structures devoted to processing 'inanimate' objects and modelling 'conscious' behaviour from living things. Like almost everything the brain models, it filters out the majority of whatever detail it considers irrelevant until what's left is some simplified 'essence' that doesn't actually correspond to reality, and is merely a mental construct intended for predicting future changes with as little processing power as possible.
The 'hard problem' of consciousness is just the instinctive dissonance we feel when we think of the stuff we use the 'living/animate' processing brain structure as being made of stuff we normally use the 'object/inanimate' brain structure to understand. It can be framed religiously as having a 'soul', and tricked easily by an AI that passes the turing test. Categories don't exist outside human minds.
