Neurobiology: The Myth That Consciousness Will Never Be Solved

There is a new article, Neuroscientist Loses a 25-Year Bet on Consciousness — to a Philosopher, concluding with the remarks: "The easy problem, which the wager focused on, is identifying the neural correlates of consciousness. It turns out the easy problem isn’t all that easy. Given that the easy problem is actually hard, the (really) “hard” problem of how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective conscious experience probably will remain unsolved for a very long time to come. Perhaps it will never be solved."

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