Life & Consciousness
The Hard Problem of Consciousness
A framing problem rather than a single theory: why and how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience at all, as opposed to just information processing without any “felt” quality — used as a stress-test against consciousness theories.
Proponents
David Chalmers
Evidence For
Widely regarded as a coherent conceptual distinction between explaining behavior/function ("easy problems") and explaining subjective experience itself.
Evidence Against
Some philosophers and scientists (illusionists, eliminativists) argue the "hard problem" is a confusion and dissolves once the easy problems are fully explained.
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