The “hard problem” of consciousness is the question of how neural activity in the brain, observed objectively, can produce what philosophers call qualia, which are the particular phenomenal properties of our subjective experiences – the redness of a poppy being a typical example, or the orangey taste of an orange. David Chalmers, enunciating this proble…
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