Welcome back to the consciousness iceberg, a project where we'll explain consciousness

consciousness from several distinct angles, including the latest theories from the Academy,

such as integrated information theory, even Yoshabakh's theories, panpsychism, as well as other traditions like insights from the Vedic texts

and the different schools of Buddhism. In layer one, we dipped our toes into the waters of consciousness

covering the foundational aspects such as basic definitions, the mind-body problem, and its dualistic

challenges, the nature of sleep dreams and altered states as variations in consciousness,

the free will versus determinism debates, with its implications for moral responsibility,

and the exploration of the self and identity questioning the nature of self-awareness and

personal continuity. In layer two, which is this layer, we'll explore the hard problem

of consciousness, qualia, non-dualism in Indian philosophy, and even John Verveikis and Carl Jung's

ideas, all explained extremely simply. My name is Kurt Jaimungle, and ordinarily, I use my background

in mathematical physics to analyze theories of everything.

However, today, we have a consciousness iceberg that's heavily inspired by Robert Lawrence Kuhn's comprehensive behemoth article on consciousness, which I recommend you check out.

The link is in the description and his Closer to Truth series on consciousness as well.

Now, let's begin with the second layer of consciousness.

The Hard Problem of Consciousness.

The Hard Problem of Consciousness was introduced by David Chalmers in 1995.

Since then, it's become a central thorn in the side of the philosophy of mind.

It asks a simple but beguiling question.

Why does subjective experience exist?

More specifically, why does it feel like something to be conscious when what we have is supposed to be dead matter at the fundament?

This problem is distinct from the so-called

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