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And also the topic itself is hardly new. It has been around at least since Descartes, maybe longer. The solution is anything but obvious. The closely related h
by yreg 3y ago
And also the topic itself is hardly new. It has been around at least since Descartes, maybe longer.
The solution is anything but obvious. The closely related hard problem of consciousness is not called hard for nothing.
- visarga 3y agoyeah it's called hard to introduce backdoor dualism in modern philosophy "hard" is the new way of saying "beyond physical", the new transcendent plane
- yreg 3y agoDavid Chalmers coined the terms "hard problem" and "easy problems" in a 1994 talk at The Science of Consciousness conference held in Tucson, Arizona: > There is not just one problem of consciousness. “Consciousness” is an ambiguous term, referring to many different phenomena. Each of these phenomena needs to be explained, but some are easier to explain than others. At the start, it is useful to divide the associated problems of consciousness into “hard” and “easy” problems.