I find the phrasing of the hard problem very strange. It's fairly obvious to anyone that has done a bit of meditation, that consciousness is simply attention to

I find the phrasing of the hard problem very strange. It's fairly obvious to anyone that has done a bit of meditation, that consciousness is simply attention to autonomous actions that your brain performs i.e. the compilation and discrimination of data from disparate systems. If you stop being attentive you start performing actions less consciously. This aligns fairly closely to what happens when we train ANN's utilizing attention based learning. We see that new emergent capabilities arise. We simply haven't built attention based multimodal training courses yet. I hope we never will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_(machine_learning) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_(machine_learning)