Someone named Tom McClelland, back in 2012, completed a doctoral thesis (0f 242 pages) about the problem of consciousness, in pursuit of a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex. The thesis "aims to provide a compelling and distinctive response to the Problem of Consciousness. This is achieved by offering a bipartite analysis of the epistemic gap at the heart of that problem, and by building upon the hypothesis that the apparent problem is symptomatic of our limited conception of the physical." https://www.academia.edu/3522302/DOCTORAL_THESIS_-_Self-representationalism_and_the_Russellian_ignorance_hypothesis_a_hybrid_response_to_the_problem_of_consciousness?email_work_card=minimal-title In McClelland's view, the heart of the "problem of consciousness" s the "epistemic gap" between the physical and the phenomenal. Between everything we do and can know about light waves, their neurological effects in eye and brain, on the one hand, and knowledge of ...
