> If it is the result of physical processes there is no hard problem.

I'm not sure if a less true statement has ever been uttered. My guess is no.

Conciousness may indeed be the result of physical processes, but one cannot deduce the occurrence of experience/qualia from our current understanding, nor can I conceive of any physical system that would allow that. The only way I can see to get conciousness is by adding a new rule that says certain physical things cause it to occur. If that makes me a Dualist, so be it, but I honestly don't understand the alternative position.

The alternative is that counciousness is a social construct humans have created to make themselves feel special.

Given that peopel can experience phantom 'qualia' when their brains have direct electrical stimulation there is no evidence that counciousness comes from magic and every evidence that it comes from the staggering complexity of the brain.

>every evidence that it comes from the staggering complexity of the brain.

Yes, based on the rest of science, that seems likely. My point is that I have no idea how that can possibly work, on a fundamental level. I have no idea what kind of physical system could exist inside the brain to cause my conscious experience to occur.

The only way I can conceive of a system to explain it is adding a new rule that says "When X pattern occurs, it experiences conciousness".

"Either couciousness is the result of physical processes or it is the result of magic."

Why is it the result of magic? Because you can't understand it?

Because if its not the result of physical processes then magic is all that is left.

Ok, let's define "non-physical" = "magic", I have no problem with that, it's important to agree on word definitions in any argument.

I think metaphysics is the more common technical term.

Well, dualism is very similar to how I see the world, so I guess I'm a dualist, at least approximately. Why would anyone pretend not to be a dualist?

Consciousness is not a physical thing. If you insist on calling everything outside of physics magic, I'm fine with that, it's just terminology.

> Consciousness is not a physical thing

Citation needed. You can't prove that, and the only honest answer right now is "we don't know how it works, though we have some clues."

Well the way I look at it, consciousness (perceptions, feelings) is the only thing that exists, physical world is just a mental model consistent with our perceptions. Physics is basically a description of the patterns in our consciousness. For example, we see and hear rocks always drop down - so we imagine there's gravity causing it.

By the way, this is not an opinion or just an idea that I like, after a lot of thinking I see it as the only worldview that makes sense, i.e. it can be "proven" (in a very loose sense of that word).