Hard Problems: Life and Consciousness (Sara Walker)

Understanding what life is, and by extension how it originates may be the most difficult open question in science, rivaling only the problem of consciousness in its potential difficulty. Both seem to bend our current understanding of physics and chemistry as ill-equipped to solve them. This led the to the notion of the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, meant to precisely articulate the key feature of consciousness our current understanding of reality can’t explain - the problem of experience, that is why does it feel like anything to exist? Like consciousness, here I argue that explaining life can similar be reduced to a single focal hard problem, the hard problem of life, that is how can information affect the material world? I discuss the relationship between the hard problems of consciousness and life and how each problem might help inform progress on the other.

Видео Hard Problems: Life and Consciousness (Sara Walker) канала Mathematical Consciousness Science