In order to have a subjective experience, there must first be something objective to subjectively experience. That is a matter of logic
Your logic maybe, not mine.
For all I know there may just be my subjective experience and nothing else, at all.
Sure I believe there's something else, something beyond my subjective experience. Still, it doesn't even need to be objective. You may all exists but if you are all p-zombies then "
objective" really doesn't mean much.
Still, I believe you exist and you're not so different from me. Perhaps with a bit of a short fuse but we're all a bit different, no biggie. Still, that I
believe this doesn't
logically entail that I
know it. Not even if what I believe happens to be true, and not even if you could say that what I believe is justified by, precisely, my subjective experience.
All I really know is my subjective experience. Therefore, for all I know, there may well be absolutely nothing beyond my subjective experience.
And that's what's
logical to me. Unless you could explained where I get it wrong exactly.
Still, I guess, either way, that would make absolutely no difference as to what I experience. Well, precisely.
Calling that process a “belief” is just sophomoric dramatics and typically intended to imply a “religious” belief; i.e., one held in spite of the evidence contradicting it. That is at the heart of all of this nonsense, since we all agree that the hard problem is one of function not form.
The "
hard problem" is to try and explain subjective experience in terms of a physical, or at least non-subjective, world that we all somehow believe exists. We're free to try that but there's no logical necessity in trying this idea. I think we just get carried away with the impressive success of science and thought that maybe it could be done. I fail to see what could possibly be the usefulness of that and I also doubt it could be done, but I accept I might be wrong on that.
Still, me, I expect rather, if anything at all, that our broadly common notion of the physical world would have to be fundamentally reconsidered. As it is, I don't think it could work.
And I somehow doubt that our
ape brain could do the trick.
It would be too much like self-denial, sort of.
EB