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A Beginner's Guide to "the Hard Problem of Consciousness" (part 1)

A Beginner's Guide to "the Hard Problem of Consciousness" (part 1)

Update: 2025-06-10
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A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit https://southboroughlabri.org/


by Ben Keyes


How is it that your brain can produce your experience of being you? How is it that we have consciousness at all? This fundamental question has occupied philosophers for many hundreds of years. More recent discoveries in neuroscience have not necessarily brought us closer to an answer. Is the 'hard problem of consciousness' a true (permanent) mystery or will further research into the functions of the brain eventually provide a satisfying explanation? This lecture is part 1 of a series and will be a layperson's introduction to some of these questions.


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A Beginner's Guide to "the Hard Problem of Consciousness" (part 1)

A Beginner's Guide to "the Hard Problem of Consciousness" (part 1)