text: **The "soft-wired view"**
  
  Some consciousness researchers have argued that the hard problem is a cultural artifact, unique to 
  contemporary Western Culture. This is similar to Type-B Materialism, but it makes the further claim that 
  the psychological facts that cause us to intuit the hard problem are not innate, but culturally conditioned. 
  Notable researchers who hold this view include Anna Wierzbicka,[96] Hakwan Lau and Matthias 
  Michel.[97] 
  
  Wierzbicka (who is a linguist) argues that the vocabulary used by consciousness researchers (including 
  words like*experience*and*consciousness*) are not universally translatable, and are "parochially 
  English."[96] Weirzbicka calls David Chalmers out by name for using these words, arguing that if 