# Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness **Domain:** Philosophy of Mind **Doc Type:** Paper Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[David Chalmers]], [[Consciousness]], [[Physicalism]] --- ## Definition “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness” is David Chalmers's 1995 paper distinguishing functional and cognitive problems from the explanatory problem of subjective experience. ## Corpus Context It is the source work for [[Hard Problem of Consciousness]] and prevents [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] from treating behavioral equivalence as a completed account of experience. ## Key Insight **This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.** ## See Also [[David Chalmers]], [[Consciousness]], [[Physicalism]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] - https://consc.net/papers/facing.html