It's not the hard problem of consciousness. It's the hard problem of matter.
RUPERT SPIRA IN CONVERSATION WITH DONALD HOFFMAN
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Cool conversation between two rebels of their fields. Spira as a extremist non-dualist and Hoffman as a reality denier :)
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