The Hard Problem of Jealousy and the Easy Problem of Consciousness

One of the most discussed problems in philosophy is the nature of consciousness, and perhaps the most popular tool for analyzing it is something called the hard problem of consciousness. It asks why there is something it is like to be you. The worry is that a brain could, in principle, do everything it does in the dark, with nobody home. Why doesn't all this information-processing go on "in the dark", free of any inner feel? David Chalmers, Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness (1995)The problem is supposed to be hard because it is a different kind of question from the rest of neuroscience. Explaining how we see, remember and move counts as the easy problems. Explaining why seeing feels like something is the hard one.🔬 David Buss and Martie Haselton call jealousy "an evolved adaptation, activated by threats to a valuable relationship".I don't think it's hard at all. Jealousy feels like something too, and so does fear. We accept that evolution made them feel like something because…

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