by Datt Nig March 30, 2011
Get the Laughing Hard Body mug.The original and most famous hard problem, of which consciousness is the core. How can the subjective, qualitative, private world of mental phenomena (thoughts, feelings, sensations) interact with or be identical to the objective, quantitative, public world of physical processes (brain states)? Every solution seems flawed: dualism invokes magical interaction, materialism struggles to locate the felt experience, and panpsychism seems bizarre. The problem is the seeming unbridgeable ontological gap between two categories of existence.
Example: "The neuroscientist pinpointed the exact neural correlate of my decision to raise my hand. The hard problem of the mind-body problem is this: what, in that flicker of voltage and chemistry, is the felt intention, the 'I' that decided? The brain event is there, but the experience of willing seems to hover, ghost-like, above it."
by Abzugal January 30, 2026
Get the Hard Problem of the Mind-Body Problem mug.The specific puzzle of the visuospatial perspective. During an OBE, people often report seeing their own physical body from an external point in the room. The hard problem is: From where, and with what, is this third-person visual data being generated and processed? The brain is inside the skull, receiving data from eyes pointing forward. Even if it's a hallucination, the brain is constructing a geometrically accurate, egocentrically rotated 3D scene of the room from a vantage point it has never physically occupied. This requires integrated knowledge of the room's layout and the body's position within it, all rendered into a coherent, panoramic "view" without using the optic nerves.
Example: A patient under anesthesia has an OBE and later accurately describes the surgical tools used and a specific conversation among the staff. The hard problem isn't just about hearing (which could be auditory processing while semi-conscious). It's: How did their brain generate the visual scene of the operating theatre from a point near the ceiling, including the top of the surgeon's head and the layout of equipment, without visual input? It suggests either an inexplicable, high-fidelity internal simulation or a literal displacement of the perceptive locus—neither of which fits current neurobiology. Hard Problem of Out-Of-Body Experiences (OBEs).
by Nammugal January 24, 2026
Get the Hard Problem of Out-Of-Body Experiences (OBEs) mug.Someone that can handle anything that comes their way, Someone who go thru shit that no one can handle, someone who isn’t scared of NOTHING, Someone who’s confident & Know that they can’t be beat 💚
I’m will forever say I’m hardbody cause I went thru shit that could’ve definitely torn me down & yet I’m still here
by @fw.3k_ October 13, 2020
Get the Hardbody mug.When playing any type of video game and the game freezes for a length of time longer than 10 minutes and is not playable after that time period.
I was playing fallout: new vegas and i was about to beat the game, next thing i know it hardbody freezes on me and i have to do the whole last mission over again! WTF!
by dariusbthebest December 30, 2010
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by B-Rit November 30, 2009
Get the hardbodykarate mug.To hang hard, preferably with several to many bros, engaging in activities such as beer pong, delving into the seminal works of David Hume, drum circles, rap battles, disk golf, and imbibing ganja through various techniques, only to name a few.
-Hey baby, you wanna smoke L's in the jacuzzi with the girlies and I?
-Sorry gurrl, but chu know I'm chillen' hardbody with my dogg Tron 2nite!
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by nome de plum August 11, 2010
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