Understanding the reality of the hard problem of consciousness

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.
 - John Searle

Consciousness is a permanently hot topic in the philosophy of mind since Rene Descartes. Below we examine the most popular views on consciousness, encounter the famous explanatory gap that makes consciousness so elusive, find why the hard problem of consciousness is real, and point out a novel way for its solution.

42: how a theory that adequately describes reality may look like

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
 - Albert Einstein

If you ever thought about the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, you probably have noticed such weird things as the temporal paradox, the wave-particle duality, and the Copenhagen interpretation. You may also has been puzzled by the question of why they cannot unify general relativity and quantum mechanics. All this has happened because quantum mechanics has gone astray, and no one wants to admit this. Although it is possible to construct a picture of the world without the strange things mentioned above, no one still gives a shift (a paradigm shift). Below you may find an answer to the question of why quantum mechanics may be incomplete.