Explaining consciousness : The hard problem

Part 1 The hard problem: facing up to the problem of consciousness, David J. Chalmers. Part 2 Deflationary perspectives: facing backwards on the problem of consciousness, Daniel C. Dennett the Hornswoggle problem, Patricia Smith Churchland function and phenomenology - closing the explanatory gap, Thomas W. Clark the why of consciousness - a non-issue for materialists, Valerie Gray Hardcastle there is no hard problem of consciousness, Kieron O'Hara and Tom Scutt should we expect to feel as if we understand consciousness?, Mark C. Price. Part 3 The explanatory gap: consciousness and space, Colin McGinn giving up on the hard problem of consciousness, Eugene O. Mills there are no easy problems of consciousness, E.J. Lowe the easy problems ain't so easy, David Hodgson facing ourselves - incorrigibility and the mind-body problem, Richard Warner the hardness of the hard problem, William S. Robinson. Part 4 Physics: the nonlocality of mind, C.J.S. Clarke conscious events as orchestrated space-time selections, Stuart R. Hameroff and Roger Penrose the hard problem - a quantum approach, Henry P. Stapp physics, machines and the hard problem, Douglas J. Bilodeau. Part 5 Neuroscience and cognitive science: why neuroscience may be able to explain consciousness, Francis Crick and Christof Koch understanding subjectivity - global workspace theory and the resurrection of the observing self, Bernard J. Baars the elements of consciousness and their neurodynamical correlates, Bruce MacLennan. Part 6 Rethinking nature: consciousness, information and panpsychism, William Seager rethinking nature - a hard problem within the hard problem, Gregg H. Rosenberg solutions to the hard problem of consciousness, Benjamin Libet turning "the hard problem" upside down and sideways, Piet Hut and Roger N. Shepard. Part 7 First-person perspectives: the relation of consciousness to the material world, Max Velmand neurophenomenology - a methodological remedy for the hard problem, Francisco J. Varela the hard problem - closing the empirical gap, Jonathan Shear. Part 8 Response: moving forward on the problem of consciousness, David J. Chalmers.