How we consciously perceive the external world has troubled humans since the beginning of the scienti?c inquiry. Pre-Socratic philosophers attempted to explain visual perception through two opposing hypotheses of vision, the intromission theory (light from external objects enters the eye) versus the extra-mission theory (the eye emits light). Graziano et al.(2019) argue that the extramission theory and other popular beliefs that assign non-materialistic properties to consciousness originate from an implicit, automatic and inaccurate mental model of our own attention (Guterstam et al., 2019). Importantly, such a prescien-ti?c, folk-psychology model has the potential to bias not only the layman’s views about the mind, but also the philosopher’s views of consciousness such as the notion of qualia. Hence, it o?ers a potential explanation for the “meta-problem” of why so many people think that there is a hard problem of consciousness.