u/Absorptance

Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Every answer to the hard problem of consciousness either:

1. Tries to dissolve the hard problem (illusionism, phenomenal concepts strategy), and gets accused of changing the subject.

2. Tries to naturalize consciousness by expanding what nature contains (panpsychism, IIT), and faces the combination problem.

3. Tries to locate the consciousness in a novel physical process (Penrose, Friston), and faces gap criticism.

4. Tries to invert the explanatory order, making mind foundational (Kant, Kastrup), and faces the problem of explaining the apparent independence of the physical world.

What have I left out?

Have you ever had a moment of conscious awareness during sleep where you realized that different parts your brain were dreaming their own independent dreams? I had this experience a few nights ago and it wasn’t until I started to fully awake that my brain began combining them into one incoherent story. I’m kind of talking about having several different lucid dreams concurrently and not experiencing any type “combination” until becoming fully awake.

Has there been any research into this? Google AI summary inaccurately says this: “While you cannot have true, simultaneous dreams…”