I firmly believe this problem will melt away in time. 'Consciousness' will gradually cease to be something that empirical science is concerned with, any more th

I firmly believe this problem will melt away in time. 'Consciousness' will gradually cease to be something that empirical science is concerned with, any more than the 'soul' is now, though it was highly salient to science 200 years ago and still is to non-science communities. The signs of this are: there's no broad agreement on what it means, there are no falsifiable predictions outstanding, and the only reason to not accept that we are philosophical zombies is what people say when you ask them about it. People believe all kinds of things that are obviously not true. Why do we give such special credence to this one? I think we will move on from this idea over time.