David Chalmers Consciousness

In David Chalmers, Consciousness and Its Place in Nature, he discusses that the hard problem of consciousness is the primary problem of distinguishing why any physical state is considered conscious rather than unconscious. He states, “the hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience. Human beings have subjective experience: there is something it is like to be them” (Chalmers 247), in other words, the act of ‘being’ is in a sense a conscious experience, and that is why conscious mental states directly appear to the subject. The fundamental methods of science encompass explanation of functional, structural, and dynamical properties, in other words, and explanation of what things do, how they are put together, and how they change