Questions about the nature of reality and consciousness remain unresolved in

philosophy today, but not for lack of hypotheses. Ontologies as varied as

physicalism, microexperientialism and cosmopsychism enrich the

philosophical menu. Each of these ontologies faces a seemingly fundamental

problem: under physicalism, for instance, we have the ‘hard problem of

consciousness,’ whereas under microexperientialism we have the ‘subject

combination problem.’ I argue that these problems are thought artifacts, having

no grounding in empirical reality. In a manner akin to semantic paradoxes, they

exist only in the internal logico-conceptual structure of their respective

ontologies.