BOOK SOURCE #9
30 SECOND BRAIN:
The 50 most mind-blowing ideas in neuroscience, each explained in half a minute by Anhil Seth, editor, forward by Chris Frith. Metro Books/Sterling Publishers, 2014.
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"Why are any physical processes, such as those happening in brains, ever accompanied by conscious experience? This is the 'hard problem', to be distinguished from the so-called 'easy problem' of explaining how the brain works." (page 76)
"Not all philosophers believe in the hard problem. Daniel Dennett argues that consciousness is best defined in terms of the function that it supports, and not by the raw essence of experience, the so-called 'qualia.'" (page76)
It could be that by solving the "easy" problems of the brain, the hard problem will dissolve away." (page 76)
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