The Hard Problem of Consciousness

The real hard problem of consciousness is actually a new one on me. There's the hard problem and the easy problems, which David Chalmers is famous for coining these terms. How can physical systems give rise to consciousness? And I tend to resist this idea that you can cleave consciousness off as one big scary mystery from all the other problems of neuroscience. The issue with the easy problems would say. It may be, but I think the issue is that we can still address many things about consciousness without necessarily facing the hard problem head on. As we can explain those things, why particular conscious experiences are the way they are, then the hope is that this hard problem will begin to fade away

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