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UFO / UAP · Consciousness
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David Chalmers

1994-01-01year known, day not recorded

Philosopher (NYU) who, at the inaugural 1994 Tucson conference, coined "the hard problem of consciousness" - why physical processes give rise to subjective experience at all. His framing set the agenda for the entire modern consciousness-studies field the UAP thinkers draw on.

In the consciousness threadOPERATOR RULING, 25 August 2026. Its role names no specific technique because the technique is not what this entity does - it belongs to the academic consciousness thread, which guardrail 3 makes co-equal here rather than a subsection. An editorial classification, not a sourced claim.

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  • The Science of Consciousness names a source we do not hold
    he named the hard problem at its 1994 inaugural meeting
    Chalmers, Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness (Tucson, 1994)
  • Donald Hoffman names a source we do not hold
    fellow philosophers of mind debating consciousness's fundamentality
    philosophy-of-mind literature