Hard Problem Of Consciousness

• "Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all?"


• "How is it that some organisms are subjects of experience?"


• "Why does awareness of sensory information exist at all?"


• "Why do Qualia exist?"


• "Why is there a subjective component to experience?"


• "Why aren't we Philosophical Zombie s?"


• "What is it like to be a bat", or other conscious organism? ( Thomas Nagel )

“Moreover, it must be confessed that perception and that
which depends upon it are inexplicable on mechanical
grounds, that is to say, by means of figures and motions. And
supposing there were a machine, so constructed as to think,
feel, and have perception, it might be conceived as increased in
size, while keeping the same proportions, so that one might go
into it as into a mill. That being so, (we should, on examining
its interior, find only parts which work one upon another, and
never anything by which to explain a perception.
Leibniz, monadology, 17, quoted by Istvan Aranyosi

• David Chalmers


• Mind Body Problem


• Philosophy Of Mind


• Qualia


• Two Dimensionalism

• ''Journal of Consciousness Studies'' Symposium on the Hard Problem


• ''The Objective Consciousness Revisited - Understanding the Nature of Consciousness'' by Robert G. Heyward


• ''The Hard Problem Is Dead'' by Teed Rockwell


• ''You can't argue with a Zombie'' by Jaron Lanier