--- abstract: Comments on David Chalmers's "hard problem" and some unsuccessful attempts to solve it. altloc: - http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad98.explaining.consciousness.html chapter: ~ commentary: 316 commref: 'Book Review of: J. Shear(Ed.)(1997)Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem.' confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Harnad given: Stevan honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1998 date_type: published datestamp: 2001-06-19 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/16/10 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 1610 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/1610/1/harnad98.explaining.consciousness.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'consciousness, "hard problem," qualia, causality, functionalism, explanation' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:42 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 6 pagerange: 234-235 pubdom: FALSE publication: Trends in Cognitive Sciences publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- Nagel, T. (1974) What is is like to be a bat? Philosophical Review 83: 435-451. Harnad, S. (1995) Why and How We Are Not Zombies. Journal of Consciousness Studies 1: 164-167. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad95.zombies.html Harnad, S. (1998) Turing Indistinguishability and the Blind Watchmaker. In: Mulhauser, G. (ed.) "Evolving Consciousness" Amsterdam: John Benjamins (in press) http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad98.turing.evol.html Hayes, P., Harnad, S., Perlis, D. & Block, N. (1992) Virtual Symposium on Virtual Mind. Minds and Machines 2: 217-238. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad92.virtualmind.html relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:39:02 subjects: - cog-psy - phil-mind succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: The Hardships of Cognitive Science type: journalp userid: 63 volume: 2