I go in circles in this. Yes - that argument seems watertight but I cannot make the 'hard problem' go away. The one thing Descartes got right is that there is a

I go in circles in this. Yes - that argument seems watertight but I cannot make the 'hard problem' go away. The one thing Descartes got right is that there is a single existence proof for qualia. All the difficulties we have in defining them or either logically or experimentally finding evidence for their existence is irrelevant. Solipsism strikes me as a more defensible position than consciousness as an emergent phenomenon in a purely materialist universe.