subjective-experience - Concepts

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Concepts

Philosophical Zombies - Hypothetical beings physically and behaviorally identical to conscious humans but entirely lacking subjective experience, used to argue that consciousness is non-physical.
Hard Problem of Consciousness - The challenge of explaining why and how physical brain processes give rise to subjective conscious experience, as distinguished from the 'easy problems' of explaining cognitive functions.
Panpsychism - The philosophical view that consciousness or mind-like qualities are a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality, present to some degree in all matter.
Mary's Room - A thought experiment arguing that knowing all the physical facts about color vision would not prepare someone for the subjective experience of actually seeing color.
Qualia - The subjective, qualitative aspects of conscious experience - the 'what it is like' quality of sensations such as the redness of red or the painfulness of pain.
Phenomenology - The philosophical study of the structures of subjective experience and consciousness as lived from the first-person perspective.