I agree that we&#x27;re not special, but the hard problem is explaining why subjective experience exists at all. What are the arrangements of physical matter that give rise to it? Here&#x27;s another fun thought. Presumably if we built a human by artificially placing all the atoms in the right place, then they would have subjective experience. What if instead we simulated that on a computer? The simulated human would act the same as a real one, including expressing wonder about how it is that they have subjective experience. Would the simulated human have <i>real</i> subjective experience? No way to find out as far as I can tell. You can&#x27;t even find out whether I have true subjective experience. Maybe I&#x27;m just a machine acting as if I do. So maybe it&#x27;s a nonsensical question, but I have never found a satisfying explanation for why exactly it&#x27;s a nonsensical question.