This video uses the Catalan Christmas tradition of "el tió" as an analogy to explain the philosophical "hard problem of consciousness." The narrator argues that just as it's difficult for a child to understand how a wooden log can produce gifts, it's equally challenging for science to explain how physical brain processes generate subjective conscious experience. The video highlights the explanatory gap between objective physical phenomena and subjective inner experience, suggesting that current scientific approaches may be insufficient to fully address the problem of consciousness.