Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
Article
Domain Context
Life and Biology
Citation
Chalmers, David J.. (1995). Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 2. pp. 200–219.
Why this reference is included
Chalmers’ 1995 Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness, published in Journal of Consciousness Studies, is one of the program’s working technical references. Cited 2 times in Book VI (Categorical Life), Part 8, Chapter Consciousness: Structural Definition of the Self-Model, where the program draws on it in the context of “Chalmers’ formulation of the hard problem (1995) sharpens Nagel’s question into a challenge for any physical theory.”
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Book VI — Categorical Life Part 8Chapter Consciousness: Structural Definition of the Self-Model
Chalmers' formulation of the hard problem (1995) sharpens Nagel's question into a challenge for any physical theory
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Book VI — Categorical Life Part 8Chapter Consciousness: Structural Definition of the Self-Model
Qualia Deferred The structural self-model answers the question: what must a system's architecture look like for the system to model its own modeling? There is a second question that it does not answer: why is there something it is like to model one's own modeling? This is the hard problem of consciousness , and it is explicitly deferred to Book VII