“Genes are destiny and nurture finalizes this destiny; therefore, every organism has a distinct conscious experience making the Hard Problem irrelevant.” (Tehovnik et al. 2025, in: Automaticity & Consciousness, in preparation)
Of course there is commonality between brains of the same species, but this commonality can never be identical, not even for identical twins whose cells are differentially modified by experience (Noble and Noble 2023). In short, Christof Koch and his associates have been chasing a false problem: trying to ascertain whether a red apple is experienced the same by two individuals. It can never be the same since the neurons can never the same. Besides, when you see the same red light that I see at an intersection, we both issue a stop command even though our brains differ. Also, monkeys can be conditioned to stop at red, despite monkey brains being different human brains.
Edward J Tehovnik
I would prefer to rephrase the question into: "The Problem of Hard Consciousness."
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