On the Dissolution of the Hard Problem: Conceptual Instability, Explanatory Form, and Phenomenological Tension

This paper argues that the hard problem of consciousness arises not from an explanatory deficiency, but from a failure to establish a stable object of explanation. I contend that the notion of "qualia" lacks sufficient referential stability to function within explanatory discourse, and that the so-called explanatory gap reflects a mismatch between distinct descriptive frameworks rather than a metaphysical shortfall. By analyzing the logical form of explanatory demands and the phenomenological sources of the intuition behind the hard problem, I argue that the problem is best understood as a pseudo-problem generated by conceptual instability and linguistic transition.