D.J. Chalmers's scientific contributions

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To make progress on the problem of consciousness, we have to confront it directly. In this paper, I first isolate the truly hard part of the problem, separating it from more tractable parts and giving an account of why it is so difficult to explain. I critique some recent work that uses reductive methods to address consciousness, and argue that the...

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... When neuroscientists detect brain signals, they are particular to mention that they only have measured the correlates of consciousness, never consciousness itself. The issue of the unknown origin of consciousness has been called "The Hard Problem of Consciousness" by the philosopherChalmers (1995). ...