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David Chalmers is related to awareness because he explicitly defines it as a functional concept distinct from consciousness to address the hard problem of consciousness [1], [2]. He further explores this relationship through his principle of structural coherence [3] and his analysis of how awareness relates to the subject problem and the knowledge of qualities [4], [5].
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Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 6 facts
claimDavid Chalmers uses the term 'awareness' in a stipulative sense to refer to a functionally defined concept that is distinct from full-blown consciousness.
claimDavid Chalmers defines 'awareness' stipulatively as the global availability of information, such as information available for verbal report, to clarify his principle of structural coherence.
claimE.J. Lowe, Max Velmans, and Benjamin Libet have expressed concerns regarding David Chalmers' use of the term 'awareness' as a functionally defined concept distinct from consciousness.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers argues that explicitly separating consciousness and awareness makes the distinction between function and sentience harder to avoid, contrary to suggestions by Max Velmans.
perspectiveBenjamin Libet criticizes David Chalmers' equation of the structure of consciousness with the structure of awareness, arguing that the equation is either trivial or false.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers rejects the inference made by E.J. Lowe that his use of the term 'awareness' implies humans are only 'aware' in an attenuated, functional sense.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 2 facts
claimDavid Chalmers argues that awareness is necessary to explain human knowledge of qualities, meaning the awareness problem is fundamentally linked to the subject problem of how consciousness or qualia result from a collective of smaller entities.
quoteDavid Chalmers states: “A view like this has the potential to answer the subject combination problem. Anything that is aware of a quality is a subject, so if this approach can show how brains or organisms stand in the awareness relation to qualities, then it will show how brains or organisms can be subjects. On the other hand, the fact that awareness requires subjects might simply suggest that the awareness combination problem is just as hard as the subject combination problem and is subject to the same sort of worries”
Quantum Theory of Consciousness - Scirp.org. scirp.org 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers proposes the principle of structural coherence as a speculative principle to solve the hard problem of consciousness, which posits an isomorphism between the structures of consciousness and awareness.