%0 Journal Article %T The problem of consciousness %A Chalmers %A David J %J Discusiones Filos¨®ficas %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this paper gives a nontechnical overview of the problems of consciousness and my approach to them. in it i distinguish between the easy problems and the hard problem of consciousness, and argue that the hard problem eludes conventional methods of explanation. i argue that we need a new form of nonreductive explanation, and make some moves toward a detailed nonreductive theory. %K consciousness %K functional explanation %K principle of structural coherence %K problems of consciousness %K nonreductive explanation. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0124-61272011000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en