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Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
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Chalmers’s selected argument separates explaining discrimination and reporting from explaining experience itself. The lesson tests that distinction without treating an explanatory gap as an automatic proof of a nonphysical mind.
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Guided course · Module 13 · Lesson 82
What would explain conscious experience?
Does Mary learn something new when she first sees color? Jackson argues that she learns what the experience is like; Lewis’s ability hypothesis questions whether that is a new fact, and Chalmers separates explaining functions from explaining experience.