@cigitalgem He had odd ideas about consciousness, though.

@dvdhaven yeah. So does Dave (chalmers). I'm surrounded by people who don't understand consciousness. Lol.

@patrickgillam @cigitalgem The "easy" problem is to determine how consciousness arises from physical structures in the brain (assuming it does). The "hard" problem is to determine how this in turn gives rise to subjective awareness.

@dvdhaven @patrickgillam @cigitalgem I'm only 2/3 through The Conscious Mind, but my take on Chalmers' Hard Problem is that nothing we explain about how consciousness arises from physical matter (which presumably can be done, and is therefore the Easy Problem) explains *why* we should have conscious experience at all. Why not an Occam-approved world populated by Philosophical Zombies (who act in every way as if they have conscious experience, but don't)?