We could say that the “hard problem” of the color white is, What is the special physical process that purifies white light of all its contaminants? The corresponding meta-problem is, Why do we even think this hard problem exists? Why do we think that white light is purified? We now know the answer to the meta-problem—the brain constructs a simple, pragmatic, but imperfect model—and with that, we also know that the hard problem doesn’t need to be solved.
