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I don't understand what the "hard problem of consciousness" is. What do philosophers mean when they say that "there's something it's like to ..."? They say "like" in this emphatic way that they seem to believe means something.
I don't understand what the "hard problem of consciousness" is. What do philosophers mean when they say that "there's something it's like to ..."? They say "like" in this emphatic way that they seem to believe means something.
There seems to be a hang-up around the linguistic accessibility of conscious experience. One of the thought experiments is "Mary" the color theorist who lives in a gray world then sees color for the first time, where the question is "does Mary learn something when experiencing color although she has all the knowledge of color theory?" To me, that's not more remarkable than the inaccessibility of the mechanism by which we can instrument our limbs without knowing the precise evolution of the cascade of impulses flowing from our brains.