The hard problem of consciousness — David Chalmers
Why explaining function may leave experience unexplained — the philosophical wedge still driving lab and AI debates.
David Chalmers · Journal of Consciousness Studies (classic)
Chalmers’ hard problem remains the gravitational center of philosophy-of-mind talk about AI sentience.
Whether you accept the wedge or reject it (illusionism, etc.), you need the argument on the table.
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