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The felt interior of experience.
Latin
conscientia
Sanskrit
cit / vijñāna
Thought is the one thing that cannot be doubted.
Consciousness is analysed into momentary, conditioned arisings, not a single watcher.
Chalmers names the 'hard problem': why processing is accompanied by experience at all.
Where do these traditions agree, and where do they genuinely part? Open the editor to write the comparison in your own words.
The hard problem marks the limit: even a system that behaved as if conscious would leave the question of inner experience untouched.
Defined plainly: Hard Problem · Chinese Room