![]() It made us ask: what the hell is this that we’re dealing with here?” But Chalmers’s particular manner of reviving it “reached outside philosophy and galvanised everyone. “And everyone was like: ‘Oh! The Hard Problem! The Hard Problem! That’s why we’re here!’” Philosophers had pondered the so-called “mind-body problem” for centuries. “At the coffee break, I went around like a playwright on opening night, eavesdropping,” Hameroff said. What jolted Chalmers’s audience from their torpor was how he had framed the question. It was a puzzle so bewildering that, in the months after his talk, people started dignifying it with capital letters – the Hard Problem of Consciousness – and it’s this: why on earth should all those complicated brain processes feel like anything from the inside? Why aren’t we just brilliant robots, capable of retaining information, of responding to noises and smells and hot saucepans, but dark inside, lacking an inner life? And how does the brain manage it? How could the 1.4kg lump of moist, pinkish-beige tissue inside your skull give rise to something as mysterious as the experience of being that pinkish-beige lump, and the body to which it is attached? There was only one truly hard problem of consciousness, Chalmers said. How do we learn, store memories, or perceive things? How do you know to jerk your hand away from scalding water, or hear your name spoken across the room at a noisy party? But these were all “easy problems”, in the scheme of things: given enough time and money, experts would figure them out. The brain, Chalmers began by pointing out, poses all sorts of problems to keep scientists busy. “He comes on stage, hair down to his butt, he’s prancing around like Mick Jagger,” Hameroff said. “But then the third talk, right before the coffee break – that was Dave.” With his long, straggly hair and fondness for all-body denim, the 27-year-old Chalmers looked like he’d got lost en route to a Metallica concert. “As the organiser, I’m looking around, and people are falling asleep, or getting restless.” He grew worried. “Quite honestly, they were totally unintelligible and boring – I had no idea what anyone was talking about,” recalled Stuart Hameroff, the Arizona professor responsible for the event. Yet the first two talks that day, before Chalmers’s, hadn’t proved thrilling. Send us feedback about these examples.The scholars gathered at the University of Arizona – for what would later go down as a landmark conference on the subject – knew they were doing something edgy: in many quarters, consciousness was still taboo, too weird and new agey to take seriously, and some of the scientists in the audience were risking their reputations by attending. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'animosity.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 Wisconsin rejected a rhetoric born out of apathy and animosity toward our neighbors. Dominik Stecuła, The Conversation, 5 Jan. 2023 To be clear, conversation is not a cure-all for political division and animosity, and there will be divides that cannot be bridged. 2023 Juana Rivera, 19 of Lowell, allegedly recruited Rodriguez, who was homeless, to be a prostitute, but then set her up to be robbed after animosity and conflict developed between the two. 2023 The girl at the center of Donal Ryan’s exquisite new novel is born into animosity and grief. 2023 The Academy fired everyone and virtually shut down, due to finances and animosity toward producer members. Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2023 But there’s a chasm and animosity between them because Marlene’s relationship with his brother, Tommy, as a Firefly, caused a physical and emotional rift between them. ![]() Recent Examples on the Web Indeed, as one of us has documented, the entire legal process dripped with injustice and animosity toward Garvey.
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