The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Nagel ’What is it Like to be a Bat?’: Jackson’s Mary’s Room & Epiphenomenalism: This is a lecture video about “The Puzzle of Conscious Experience“ by David Chalmers. In this 2002 article from Scientific American, Chalmers distinguishes the easy problems of consciousness from what he calls the hard problem of consciousness. He explains how there are three broad responses to the hard problem (optimistic reductionism, mysterianism, and dualism, though he does not use the term “dualism“), and how all current neuropsychological research only attempts to solve the easy problems. There is also discussion of potential psychophysical laws. This is part of an introductory philosophy course.