The “hard problem” of consciousness. The paradox, the elusive and individual nature of perceiving the consciousness of a brain.
The concept of the philosophical zombie[🡕], the hard problem of consciousness[🡕], David Chalmers[🡕]…
David Chalmers on YouTube[🡕]
How do you explain consciousness? – David Chalmers[🡕]
What creates consciousness? @WorldScienceFestival, with David Chalmers and Anil Seth[🡕], including the thought experiment of Mary and the black-and-white world intended to explain qualia.
Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85[🡕]
«Nobody has the slightest idea how anything material could be conscious. Nobody even knows what it would be like to have the slightest idea about how anything material could be conscious.»
Philosopher Jerry Fodor in a 1992 issue of The Times Literary Supplement
[…] I also want to remind you that the concept of “transcendence” has become the domain of various branches of investigation (philosophy, psychology, neurology). All three got stuck with too many cards once faced with the paradox of consciousness. There is no winner here […]
Giorgio Fegatini, YouTube comment to “Agonies of identity – Conclusion – Identity: matter and consciousness”, Emanuele Severino, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, International Congress 2-3-4 November 2017[🡕]
On circularity, about being observers who are themselves part of the observed system (IT): Carlo Rovelli: Perché l’Infinitamente grande si comporta come le particelle[🡕]