The “hard problem of consciousness” is the problem of resolving a linguistic dispute disguised as an ontological one, where people agree on the normative properties of consciousness (it’s valuable) but on its descriptive properties (its nature as a process/pattern.)
That’s just another conflation—of an easy and the hard problem—yes, there is disagreement about what mental processes are valuable, but there is also ontological problem and not everyone agree that ontological consciousness is intrinsically valuable.
That’s just another conflation—of an easy and the hard problem—yes, there is disagreement about what mental processes are valuable, but there is also ontological problem and not everyone agree that ontological consciousness is intrinsically valuable.