hard problem of consciousness
The hard problem of consciousness refers to the fundamental mystery of how and why subjective experiences emerge from physical processes in the brain, and why certain neuronal activities give rise to subjective awareness. It asks why and how our brain processes create a unified and subjective first-person experience, which cannot be fully explained by studying only the objective aspects of the brain.
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