ABSTRACT
This chapter closes off some final worries for the Automated Compression Theory (ACT) approach and further demonstrates how ACT explains our hard problem intuitions. First, the chapter outlines an “ability hypothesis” response to the knowledge argument using ACT resources. The chapter then defuses the worry that any easy explanation of the problematic appearances of consciousness will simply move all the trouble to a higher level: the “appearances of the appearances.” The chapter then recapitulates the main debunking argument and closes with a type-Q postscript and a last word about the future direction of the empirical study of consciousness in the ACT framework.
