Let $P$ be a smooth projective variety over a field $K$ (one may certainly assume that $K$ is perfect; the case $K=\mathbb{Q}$ already seems to be interesting enough). For some $l\neq char K$, $n>0$, should the $n$-th ${\mathbb{Q}l}$-adic Galois cohomology of $X_{K^{sep}}$ be semi-simple as a $Gal(K)$-representation? Certainly; no proof of this fact is known, so I would rather like to know whether it is related with some 'motivic' conjectures. Some remarks: 1. For a finite $K$ one can consider the 'motivic' Frobenius; thus the conjecture follows from standard (motivic) ones. Yet this argument does not seem to work already for $K=\mathbb{Q}$. 2. It is certainly tempting to apply some polarizability argument. Yet my impression is that polarizability can only be applied to Hodge structures (in general); is this true?