Argument

Hard problem of consciousness

Overview

the problem of explaining how and why organisms have qualia or phenomenal experiences

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Philosophers who discussed Hard problem of consciousness

• Jaegwon Kim
• David Chalmers
• Colin McGinn
• Keith Frankish
• Joseph Levine (philosopher)
• Derk Pereboom

Related ideas

• What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
• Christof Koch
• Subjective character of experience
• Mind–body problem
• Ned Block
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Hinduism
• Springer Science+Business Media
• Counterexample
• Isaac Newton
• Intuition
• Idealism
• John Stuart Mill
• Consciousness Explained
• Negation
• John Locke
• John Dewey
• Vitalism
• Necessity and sufficiency
• Cognitive architecture
• Giulio Tononi
• Mind–body dualism
• Contingency (philosophy)
• Massimo Pigliucci

Place in the tradition

Part of American philosophy.

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