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Consciousness is fundamentally characterized by subjective first-person data [1], and the relationship between these two concepts is central to debates regarding whether consciousness can be mechanistically explained {fact:2, fact:4} or categorized into 'hard' and 'easy' problems [2].
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The Problem of Hard and Easy Problems cambridge.org 4 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.
claimIf some third-person data are both about consciousness and mechanistically explainable objective functions, then at least some aspects of consciousness measured by third-person data can be explained mechanistically, regardless of whether first-person data are amenable to mechanistic explanation.
claimMechanistically explainable objective functioning can only explain objective third-person data, whereas consciousness is characterized by subjective first-person data.
claimThe classification of the problem of consciousness as 'easy' or 'hard' depends on the extent to which first-person and third-person data are shown to convey information about one another.