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The problem of consciousnessKeywords: consciousness, functional explanation, principle of structural coherence, problems of consciousness, nonreductive explanation. Abstract: 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.
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