[Verse 1] They built a theory smooth and clean Said consciousness is just a screen Where global signals come to play But critics raise their flags today The hard problem still remains unsolved Just explaining what gets reported Not the feeling that's involved The mystery gets distorted [Chorus] Report versus experience, that's the divide Explaining how we tell the tale But not the rider inside Hard problem called illusion But philosophers won't buy The gap between the neural fire And the witness in your eye [Verse 2] Empirical support runs thin Compared to rivals thick with data Integration theories win When evidence becomes the mantra Global workspace has the tests The imaging and the proof While consciousness theories rest On logic more aloof [Chorus] Report versus experience, that's the divide Explaining how we tell the tale But not the rider inside Hard problem called illusion But philosophers won't buy The gap between the neural fire And the witness in your eye [Bridge] They say the gap's not really there Just confusion in our thinking But the redness of the apple And the pain when you are sinking Feel like more than mere reports More than global integration Something deeper always courts Our stubborn intuition [Verse 3] The explanatory canyon yawns Between the circuits and the qualia No bridge connects the neuronal dawns To subjective Macedonia Underselling what needs solving Makes the theory incomplete Critics keep revolving Around what makes experience sweet [Verse 4] Deflationary moves seem rushed When consciousness feels so real The phenomenal can't be brushed Away by theoretical zeal What science seeks is understanding Not just functional accounts The first-person world's demanding More than what the theory mounts [Chorus] Report versus experience, that's the divide Explaining how we tell the tale But not the rider inside Hard problem called illusion But philosophers won't buy The gap between the neural fire And the witness in your eye [Outro] So the minuses accumulate Against the grand design The theory that seemed adequate Still leaves the puzzle mine [Final Chorus] Report versus experience, that's the divide Explaining how we tell the tale But not the rider inside Hard problem called illusion But philosophers won't buy The gap between the neural fire And the witness in your eye
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