Does Consciousness Alone Truly Exist?

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In his 1995 paper, Australian philosopher David Chalmers formulated what he called the “Hard Problem of Consciousness”.

The really hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience. When we think and perceive, there is a whir of information-processing, but there is also a subjective aspect. As Nagel has put it, there is something it is like to be a conscious organism. This subjective…