# The Gap Between Function and Experience by David Chalmers
> "There is an explanatory gap between the functions and experience."
> **— David Chalmers**, *Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness (1995), excerpt candidate*
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"There is an explanatory gap between the functions and experience."
— David Chalmers, Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness (1995), excerpt candidate
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