Hard problem of consciousness
Hard problem of consciousness
Real World
No matter how detailed a neuroscientist's brain scan of a person watching a sunset becomes, it cannot capture what the golden light subjectively feels like to that person — this explanatory gap is exactly what Chalmers calls the hard problem.
Exam Focus
Distinguish 'easy problems' from the hard problem clearly; conflating them is a common error that loses AO1 marks.
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