Scientists & Researchers

David Chalmers

1994

Philosopher (NYU) who, at the inaugural 1994 Tucson conference, coined "the hard problem of consciousness" - why physical processes give rise to subjective experience at all. His framing set the agenda for the entire modern consciousness-studies field the UAP thinkers draw on.

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confirmedThe Science of Consciousness

he named the hard problem at its 1994 inaugural meeting

Source: Chalmers, Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness (Tucson, 1994)

confirmedDonald Hoffman

fellow philosophers of mind debating consciousness's fundamentality

Source: philosophy-of-mind literature

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