meta-problem will solve or dissolve the hard problem. A weaker line holds that it will not
remove the hard problem, but it will constrain the form of a solution.
In other words, the 'strong line' holds that the solution to the meta-problem would provide an explanation
of our beliefs about consciousness that is independent of consciousness. That would debunk our beliefs
about consciousness, in the same way that explaining beliefs about god in evolutionary terms may
provide arguments against theism itself.[144]
Tom Stoppard's play The Hard Problem, first produced in 2015, is named after the hard problem of
consciousness, which Stoppard defines as having "subjective First Person experiences".[145]
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1. "But, without any delusive representations of images or phantasms, I am most certain that I
am, and that I know and delight in this. In respect to these truths I am not at all afraid of the
arguments of the Academians, who say, What if you are deceived? For if I am deceived, I
am. For he who is not, cannot be deceived..."
2. There has been debate over how best to characterize James' position. The Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy states: "James’s commitment to panpsychism remains
somewhat controversial, since he also advanced a cogent set of objections against a
version of the view, which he labelled the 'mind dust' theory, in chapter six of The Principles
of Psychology ([1890] 1981). These objections are the inspiration for the so-called
'combination problem', around which much of the twenty first century literature on
panpsychism focuses."
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