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Patricia Smith Churchland is a prominent philosopher who engages with the concept of consciousness through her critiques of theories like those of Roger Penrose [1] and her debates with David Chalmers regarding the 'hard problem' of consciousness {fact:2, fact:3}.
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Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 2 facts
claimDavid Chalmers notes that while Patricia Churchland correctly identifies that phenomena such as attention have an experiential component, it remains unclear why the experiential aspect should accompany the neural or cognitive functions associated with those phenomena.
claimDavid Chalmers argues that Patricia Churchland mischaracterizes his 'easy' versus 'hard' problem distinction by framing it as a division between specific cognitive problems like attention, learning, and memory on one hand, and the problem of consciousness on the other.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimRick Grush and Patricia Smith Churchland published a critique titled 'Gaps in Penrose’s toilings' in the Journal of Consciousness Studies in 1995, which was subsequently responded to by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff in the same journal.