Consciousness Explained
What is it that psychologists and philosophers call The Hard Problem?
3 min readJun 15, 2022
Consciousness — or rather, self-consciousness — is a much-debated term throughout the history of both psychology and philosophy. In his 1996 book The Conscious Mind, Australian philosopher David Chalmers (1966) describes what he calls the easy problems of consciousness — like being able to explain how the…