>There is nothing delusional about the fact that the first-person experience exists and is the basis of all science That is a wildly incorrect characterization

>There is nothing delusional about the fact that the first-person experience exists and is the basis of all science That is a wildly incorrect characterization of the Hard Problem. Remember, Chalmers and most of the rest of the Hard Problemers fully admit that all the "merely" functional aspects of consciousness actually exist. They think that a p-zombie can in fact perform scientific experiments, reason about the world, figure out what time the bus will come, etc. So in fact, first-person experience, as characterized in the Hard Problem, is not the basis of any science. Functional cognition is fully admitted to be the basis for every field of human domain knowledge, and it's also the object of study for cognitive scientists.