“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”

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  The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link

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• mental states concept
• qualia concept
• mind-body problem concept
• Thomas Nagel entity
• consciousness concept