The Hard Problem Reversed

What I want to say touches on David Chalmers ”hard problem” ”how does material living things have consciousness?” and the difficulty of understanding another mind. We cannot fathom what it is like to be a bat – because we don’t have sonar faculties (Thomas Nagel).

The starting point of inquiry in ”hard problem” discourse is the material world.
But I marvel at the difficulty from the other direction – Our primary reality is what our mind experiences. That is the ground we stand on. The true fundamental nature of the material world is inaccessible to our mind to a degree at least as severe as the ”hard problem” question.
I have an intuition that the ”hard problem” question is hard because it is self referential in some sense. We experience the material world subjectively and then we try to explain the subjective in terms of the material.
Self references create weird paradoxes in other fields of thought such as logic. An example is the ”liars paradox” – ”This statement is false”.
Perhaps something like this makes it difficult. When we think of ourselves as minds we usually have no problem understanding other minds as minds. When we think of ourselves and others like physical objects – consciousness becomes a mystery.

(Written 2021)