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The hard problem of consciousness is fundamentally defined as the challenge of explaining why and how physical processes give rise to conscious experience [1], [2], [3]. Philosophers like David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett explicitly link the two concepts by debating whether conscious experience can be reduced to physical brain states or if it remains an irreducible mystery [4], [5], [6], [7].
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The Conscious Mind - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 3 facts
perspectiveDavid Chalmers believes that an adequate theory of consciousness requires solving both the hard and easy problems, meaning science must discover not only brain states associated with conscious experience but also why and how those brain states are accompanied by experience.
claimDavid Chalmers argues that the 'hard problem' of consciousness is difficult because conscious experience is irreducible to lower-order physical facts.
claimDavid Chalmers supports the irreducibility of conscious experience by appealing to conceivability, arguing that conscious experience can always be 'abstracted away' from reductive explanations, as evidenced by the logical possibility of philosophical zombies, which are exact replicas of a person that lack conscious experience.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimPhilosophical zombies are hypothetical beings that are physically identical to humans but lack conscious experience, serving as a thought experiment in discussions of the hard problem of consciousness.
claimDavid Chalmers discussed Global workspace theory in his original paper on the hard problem of consciousness, arguing that while it provides a promising account of how information becomes globally accessible in the brain, it fails to answer why global accessibility gives rise to conscious experience.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
perspectiveDaniel Dennett characterizes the hard problem of consciousness as a "hunch" and argues that conscious experience is merely a complex cognitive illusion.
(DOC) The hard problem of consciousness & the phenomenological ... academia.edu 1 fact
claimThe 'hard problem' of consciousness is defined as the problem of explaining how and why sentient beings have conscious experiences.
Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceStephen Grossberg published 'Towards solving the hard problem of consciousness: the varieties of brain resonances and the conscious experiences that they support' in Neural Networks in 2017.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
claimThe hard problem of consciousness is defined as the challenge of explaining conscious experience.
Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
claimThe hard problem of consciousness is the challenge of explaining why any physical state is conscious rather than nonconscious, specifically why there is 'something it is like' for a subject in conscious experience.
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers defines the 'hard problem' of consciousness as the question of why the performance of a function is associated with conscious experience, noting that this remains a nontrivial question even after the function itself is explained.