There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

That poses a bit of a problem. We have to get through them.

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.

The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.