255. David Chalmers — Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Hard Problem Is Consciousness?
How do you explain the experience of consciousness, what it's like to me or you? The hard problem is how you would go from neron swapping chemicals, to you and i having an experience of being like to be something. Why doesn't all these processes in the brain go on, like detecting something red, without it actually being subjectively experienced from the first person point of view? It isn't obvious why that exists.
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