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The Hard Problem

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Chalmers' hard problem: explaining behavior, reporting, and control are "easy" problems; explaining why any of it is accompanied by experience is the hard one.

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Science can map every function and still face the question: why does seeing feel like anything at all?

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"Easy" is a term of art—the easy problems take generations. Hard means a different kind of difficult.

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