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Consciousness is central to the mind-body problem, as it is the specific factor that creates the explanatory gap between physical and phenomenal accounts {fact:6, fact:8}. Various philosophical frameworks, such as panpsychism and dualism, attempt to resolve the mind-body problem by defining the ontological status of consciousness {fact:3, fact:5, fact:7}, a relationship further evidenced by academic literature linking the two concepts {fact:1, fact:2}.
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The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 3 facts
claimThe explanatory gap between physical and phenomenal accounts of consciousness has been a topic of discussion in the mind-body problem for centuries.
claimSome approaches to the mind-body problem assume that the physical world might be the manifestation of a ubiquitous phenomenal or protophenomenal essence, which contrasts with substance dualism that presupposes consciousness emerges from a physical substrate.
quote“We can say that a being is conscious if there is something it is like to be that being, to use a phrase made famous by Thomas Nagel. Similarly, a mental state is conscious if it has a qualitative feel—an associated quality of experience. These qualitative feels are also known as phenomenal qualities, or qualia for short. The problem of explaining these phenomenal qualities is just the problem of explaining consciousness. This is the really hard part of the mind–body problem”
David Chalmers Thinks the Hard Problem Is Really Hard scientificamerican.com 1 fact
claimThomas Nagel asserted in his 1974 essay 'What is it like to be a bat?' that consciousness is the specific factor that makes the mind-body problem difficult.
Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
referenceDavid R. Griffin authored the book 'Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind Body Problem,' published by the University of California Press in 1998.
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 1 fact
referenceC. McGinn authored the paper 'Can we solve the mind-body problem?', which was published in Mind, Volume 98, pages 349-366, in 1989, and later reprinted in 'The Problem of Consciousness' (Blackwell, 1991).
(PDF) Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness - Academia.edu academia.edu 1 fact
claimPanpsychism asserts that all matter possesses consciousness at varying levels, offering a potential resolution to the mind-body problem that traditional physicalism struggles to explain.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimGeneral metaphysical theories of consciousness address the mind-body problem by asking about the ontological status of consciousness relative to the physical world, with responses generally paralleling standard dualism and physicalism.
Quantum Models of Consciousness from a Quantum Information ... arxiv.org 1 fact
claimSome researchers suggest that the force field associated with consciousness represents the brain’s endogenous electromagnetic (EM) field, which reframes the mind-body problem as a matter-field dualism.