Consciousness: what's so hard about it?

The 'the hard problem' is not hard, nor a problem at all. Materialism, though, is both hard and a problem.

I am writing this post as a resource for all of you who are faced with materialist views; I can see you, on Youtube threads etc. having to discuss with people who seem to have fallen behind; it’s hard to explain to someone with world view that belongs to our past that we are not discussing it on their terms; they assume that we are ‘Medieval minds’ (well, Medieval minds were much more dev...