Исследование сознания в философии и когнитивных науках: почему трудная проблема сознания не нуждается в решении

Abstract

The hard problem of consciousness is to explain how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience. I am arguing that the hard problem is not a problem for science. As soon as the nomological correlation between subjective experience and objective facts about the brain is established, the scientifi c understanding of consciousness is in place. What we need in order to solve the remaining hard problem is not a discovery of new facts about the brain and not a formulation of psychophysical bridging principles, but the realization that the concepts we use in our discussion about consciousness must be changed, because they make the hard problem unsolvable.