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Ep17 "What is consciousness?"
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
The Easy Problem of Consciousness
The philosopher David Chalmers divided the scientific exploration of consciousness into two categories. The easy problem is to find neural signals that correlate with consciousness, as in this region is active when you're conscious of something. It's a hard problem because it's not clear how physical stuff gives rise to a private internal life. One theory is that the brain uses timing information to integrate things.
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