Explaining consciousness : The hard problem

Abstract

Part 1 The hard problem: facing up to of consciousness, David J. Chalmers. Part 2 Deflationary perspectives: facing backwards on of consciousness, Daniel C. Dennett Hornswoggle problem, Patricia Smith Churchland function and phenomenology - closing explanatory gap, Thomas W. Clark why of consciousness - a non-issue for materialists, Valerie Gray Hardcastle there is no hard of consciousness, Kieron O'Hara and Tom Scutt should we expect to feel as if we understand consciousness?, Mark C. Price. Part 3 The explanatory gap: consciousness and space, Colin McGinn giving up on hard of consciousness, Eugene O. Mills there are no easy problems of consciousness, E.J. Lowe easy problems ain't so easy, David Hodgson facing ourselves - incorrigibility and mind-body problem, Richard Warner hardness of hard problem, William S. Robinson. Part 4 Physics: nonlocality of mind, C.J.S. Clarke conscious events as orchestrated space-time selections, Stuart R. Hameroff and Roger Penrose hard - a quantum approach, Henry P. Stapp physics, machines and hard problem, Douglas J. Bilodeau. Part 5 Neuroscience and cognitive science: why neuroscience may be able to explain consciousness, Francis Crick and Christof Koch understanding subjectivity - global workspace theory and resurrection of observing self, Bernard J. Baars elements of consciousness and their neurodynamical correlates, Bruce MacLennan. Part 6 Rethinking nature: consciousness, information and panpsychism, William Seager rethinking nature - a hard within hard problem, Gregg H. Rosenberg solutions to hard of consciousness, Benjamin Libet turning the hard problem upside down and sideways, Piet Hut and Roger N. Shepard. Part 7 First-person perspectives: relation of consciousness to material world, Max Velmand neurophenomenology - a methodological remedy for hard problem, Francisco J. Varela hard - closing empirical gap, Jonathan Shear. Part 8 Response: moving forward on of consciousness, David J. Chalmers.