Sara Imari Walker

The "Hard Problem" of Life

arXiv Preprint Archive June 23, 2016 Sara Imari Walker, Paul C. W. Davies preprint

Chalmer's famously identified pinpointing an explanation for our subjective experience as the "hard problem of consciousness". He argued that subjective experience constitutes a "hard problem" in the sense that its explanation will ultimately require new physical laws or principles. Here, we propose a corresponding "hard problem of life" as the problem of how `information' can affect the world....