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The concepts are related because subjective experience is the core content described by first-person data, as established in [1] and [2]. Furthermore, the relationship between these two is central to the debate over whether first-person data can provide information about objective functioning or if subjective experience remains distinct from mechanistic explanations, as discussed in [3], [4], and [5].
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The Problem of Hard and Easy Problems cambridge.org 5 facts
claimThe author argues that the classification of consciousness problems into 'hard' (subjective) and 'easy' (objective) is noncategorical because some first-person data convey information about objective functioning, and some third-person data convey information about subjective experience.
claimThe conclusion that explaining objective functions does not explain subjective experience is potentially unjustified because it relies on the premise that first-person data is not data about objective functioning, which may not be true.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers posits that the 'hard problem of consciousness' is defined by the unexplained character of first-person data regarding subjective experience, which he argues transcends objective functioning.
claimFirst-person data are characterized as informative of subjective experience and uninformative of mechanistically explainable functional relationships, while third-person data are characterized as conveying information about mechanistically explainable functional relationships.
claimThe model of explaining systems by specifying mechanisms breaks down for first-person data because subjective experience is not data about objective functioning.