Every single explanation I’ve ever seen completely ignores the hard problem. Then when you raise that with somebody attempting to explain consciousness in material terms, they’ll say, “yea but quantum measurements and neuronal networks this and that”, and continue to go on with other explanations that (even if they don’t realize it) still completely ignore the hard problem and they never get an inch closer to describing why any arrangement of anything physical should lead to a subjective conscious experience. Then you challenge them on that point, and then they respond, again, by going deeper on their explanation, adding in new pieces of physical material and combinations of them and different analogies, and they still have yet to come a millimeter closer to explaining why an arrangement of atoms should translate into a conscious subjective experience. Or why a particular arrangement of atoms should be considered the same thing as my thought that, “Boy I Really feel like eating some apples with Peanut butter.” As if that thought is somehow analogous to X number of protons, electrons, up quarks, down quarks etc. Even if you could somehow mathematically determine that you’ve isolated that X number of atoms definitely exist along with other physical items and forces and arrangements whenever I have a particular exact thought, that combination (or any particular combination of anything material) is still not the same thing as the subjective experience of that thought.
But I’m preaching to the choir here. I think. I hope lol.
I also don’t buy the idea that rocks, or all atoms have consciousness, because I’m full of atoms, and as far as I can tell, I am one consciousness. You could speculate that I have one overall consciousness, and my separate atoms have their own separate consciousness, but that’s really compounding the issue and you have to then explain why this huge number of atoms (all separately conscious) have given rise to another SEPERATE grand consciousness (myself), and where do you stop with that? Have the arrangement of atoms in my fingernail given rise to a larger consciousness in my fingernail (in addition to the separate consciousness of all the individual atoms in my fingernail?) All the atoms in my fingernail are self-aware but they’ve also given rise to a self aware fingernail that calls itself “I”? Of course consciousness isn’t necessarily analogous to self-awareness, you can get the picture of where I’m going with this. Or maybe you can’t.