You’re aware, I assume, that you’re describing David Chalmers’ “philosophical zombie” thought experiment. The “Hard Problem of Consciousness”— a term coined by

You’re aware, I assume, that you’re describing David Chalmers’ “philosophical zombie” thought experiment. The “Hard Problem of Consciousness”— a term coined by Chalmers— is not universally agreed to actually be such a hard problem. For anyone who wants to dig deeper into this philosophical discussion, Sean Carroll (who does not himself believe the problem to be so “hard”) has a very thorough and civil discussion with Chalmers about this on an episode of his fantastic podcast, Mindscape: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/12/03/episode-25-david-chalmers-on-consciousness-the-hard-problem-and-living-in-a-simulation/ https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/12/03/epis...