What Is Consciousness? The Hardest Problem in Philosophy
You know you’re conscious right now. You’re having an experience of reading these words. There’s something it’s like to be you. But what is that “something”? This is the hard problem of consciousness. Not how the brain works — we’re making progress there. Not even how we process information or respond to stimuli. Those are the easy problems. The hard problem is: why is there any inner experience at all?...