A bit of mind-blowing to explain the ‘hard problem of consciousness’
Human consciousness is one of the great mysteries of science. Being aware of ourselves, asking ourselves existential questions that make our hair stand on end, having desires that go beyond those emanating from the most primary instincts, projecting ourselves into the future to achieve them... It seems that the merely material is exceeded or transmuted. David Chalmers, an Australian analytical philosopher, defined all this as the ‘hard problem of consciousness’. To understand it, let’s see what would be the easy part, such as the functioning of a neuronal cell. Like an ant, a neuron performs the basic processes of subsistence, turning processes on and off. However, when hundreds of thousands of ants come together, a perfectly structured and hierarchical underground mega-city is created, or in our case when more than a hundred billion neurons communicate with each other, a thinking being appears to wonder things and enjoy an experience . It may sound scary, but it has been the mat...