The Hard Problem of Consciousness Starts with a Subtraction: Abstract and Manuscript Provenance Statement

This record contains a DOI-bearing abstract and cryptographic provenance statement for Jeffrey Goodrich’s monograph The Hard Problem of Consciousness Starts with a Subtraction: Why Experience Is Not an Extra Fact. The work argues that the Hard Problem is manufactured when the omissions of scientific abstraction are transferred to actuality, leaving an allegedly complete but nonexperiential physiology to which experience must then be added. It defends a one-occurrence thesis: the relevant dynamically renewed, integrated physiological episode is the lived experience itself—not a neutral mechanism plus a phenomenal addition and not an object presented to an inner observer. The deposited PDF records the paperback ISBN and SHA-256 digests of the frozen Kindle EPUB and print-interior PDF. This DOI identifies the provenance statement only. The deposited PDF is licensed under CC BY 4.0; the referenced manuscript files are neither deposited nor licensed by this record. Zenodo metadata is separately available under CC0 pursuant to Zenodo policy.