Philosopher David Chalmers named this puzzle in 1995: why does any physical process — like neurons firing — come with a felt experience at all? Science can explain how the brain processes information, remembers, and reacts. What it can't yet explain is why any of that feels like something from the inside, instead of just happening in the dark, like a machine with no one home.
aware of a scientific paper touching on consciousness as fundamental? share the link with · · ·.
every submission gets read. not every one makes the cut.