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David Chalmers relates the nervous system to consciousness studies by defining the 'easy problems' as mechanistic explanations of its activity alongside brain functions in relation to the environment, contrasting it with the 'hard problem' of subjective experience. [1]
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claimDavid Chalmers defines the 'easy problems' of consciousness as mechanistic explanations involving the activity of the nervous system and brain in relation to the environment, while defining the 'hard problem' as the question of why those physical mechanisms are accompanied by subjective feelings, such as the feeling of pain.