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In philosophy of mind, the hard problem of consciousness is to explain why and how humans and other organisms have qualia, phenomenal consciousness, or subjective experiences.[1][2] It is contrasted with the "easy problems" of explaining why and how physical systems give a (healthy) human being the ability to discriminate, to integrate information, and to perform behavioral functions such as watching, listening, speaking (including generating an utterance that appears to refer to personal behaviour or belief), and so forth.[1] The easy problems are amenable to functional explanation: that is, explanations that are mechanistic or behavioral, as each physical system can be explained (at least in principle) purely by reference to the "structure and dynamics" that underpin the phenomenon.[3][4][1] Proponents of the hard problem argue that it is categorically different from the easy problems since no mechanistic or behavioral explanation could explain the character of an experience, not eve

Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philosophical concept David Chalmers on stage for an Alan Turing Year event at De La Salle University , Manila, 27 March 2012 In the philosophy of mind , the hard problem of consciousness (or simply the hard problem ) is to explain how and why organisms have qualia , phenomenal consciousness , or subjective experience . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is contrasted with the "easy problems" of explaining why and how physical systems give rise to the ability to discriminate, to integrate information, and to perform be

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