Grammar, Mediation, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness

The provided text, an excerpt from the work "MEOW: Solving Consciousness's Hard Problem with Grammar" by language philosopher Bry Willis, argues that the "hard problem of consciousness" is not a genuine metaphysical dilemma but an artefact manufactured by faulty grammar and conceptual framing within the English language. Willis introduces the MEOW framework (Mediated Encounter Ontology of the World) to dissolve the problem by treating experience as an encounter manifesting through layered mediations rather than assuming a gap between two substances ("mind" and "world"). These layers are detailed across Biological, Cognitive, Linguistic–Conceptual, and Cultural–Normative Mediation, with the Linguistic layer being primarily responsible for creating the illusion of the problem by forcing a binary opposition between "physical" and "experience." Ultimately, the text asserts that MEOW shows that the hard problem only exists because of a conceptual architecture that fails to model its own linguistic limitations.https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/25/how-meow-turns-a-metaphysical-mountain-into-a-linguistic-molehill/