You may have seen something like this in a science museum and been asked to place the pieces just so to bridge the gap.

This little bridge illustration speaks volumes. With enough basic building blocks in place, one finds elegance and stability. Such elegance is seen widely in nature. This bridge was designed but nothing in nature was designed. Nature found solutions through trial and error. Some combinations worked much better than others. Some combinations were more stable than others.

One of the difficulties in understanding how the universe came to be, is understanding how simple it all is. We are searching for complex answers, convoluted answers, when simple answers are here right in front of us. We ignore the simple, we disregard the simple and only accept things that are sophisticated. Nobel prizes have been given to those that did lengthy complex experiments, but also to one person that used nothing more than a pencil and a piece of Sellotape.

The challenge for you is to see the magnificence in simple things, simple numbers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and in this case 7. Seven pieces that make a bridge. Simple uniform pieces that span the gap. Enough of them. In the right positions. You see this time and time again in chemistry and biology. You are made of simple stuff. Lots of simple stuff that gives rise to complexity.

The answers to the hard questions are found in your home, in your head, not in distant galaxies or lands far away. You need not read a mountain of books. You only need to explore inside of yourself. A few pointers will help.

The hard bit in the hard problem of consciousness is understanding, comprehending, accepting how simple it is. It is hard/difficult for us to understand that the answer to how we get the sensation of consciousness is very, very, easy.

How do we decide things? The answer to that is super simple. We may decide if someone is innocent or guilty. The simple truth about how we decide in the end is very simple with the clue to what we do when deciding; the scales of justice.

Clever, astute people wilfully ignore simple answers to complicated looking questions. It seems so simple, so they dismiss it. Too simple, therefore it must be wrong is what they muse.