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The Hard Problem of Consciousness
In its simplest form, it means how experience rises from matter. But basically we're no closer to explaining the hard problem of consciousness than we were hundreds of years ago,. Is that right, Don? Yes. And we're going to talk about your theory. We really want to know exactly what pattern of neural activity must be the taste of chocolate and could not be the smell of an orange or something like that. There is not one example on the table to date. So they have to stipulate the connection to the conscious experience themselves. It's a physicalist framework in which space time is fundamental.