{"id":192993,"date":"2024-07-15T15:26:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-mystery-of-consciousness-is-deeper-than-we-thought"},"modified":"2024-07-15T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T20:26:06","slug":"the-mystery-of-consciousness-is-deeper-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-mystery-of-consciousness-is-deeper-than-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-mystery-of-consciousness-is-deeper-than-we-thought2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite great progress, we lack even the beginning of an explanation of how the brain produces our inner world of colors, sounds, smells and tastes. A thought experiment with \u201cpain-pleasure\u201d zombies illustrates that the mystery is deeper than we thought.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uhRhtFFhNzQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/philip-goff\/\">Philip Goff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uhRhtFFhNzQ\">Australian philosopher David Chalmers<\/a> famously <a href=\"https:\/\/philpapers.org\/rec\/CHAFUT\">framed the challenge<\/a> of distinguishing between the \u201ceasy\u201d problems and the \u201chard\u201d problem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/what-is-consciousness\/\">of consciousness<\/a>. Easy problems focus on explaining behavior, such as the ability to discriminate, categorize and react to surprises. Still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/video\/decoding-the-puzzle-of-human-consciousness\/\">incredibly challenging<\/a>, they\u2019re \u201ceasy\u201d in the sense that they fit into standard scientific explanation: we postulate a mechanism to explain how the system\u2014the brain\u2014does what it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite great progress, we lack even the beginning of an explanation of how the brain produces our inner world of colors, sounds, smells and tastes. A thought experiment with \u201cpain-pleasure\u201d zombies illustrates that the mystery is deeper than we thought. By Philip Goff In the 1990s the Australian philosopher David Chalmers famously framed the challenge [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}