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Part 1 The hard problem: facing up to the problem of consciousness,David J. Chalmers. Part 2 Deflationary perspectives: facing backwardson the problem of consciousness, Daniel C. Dennett; the Hornswoggleproblem, Patricia Smith Churchland; function and phenomenology -closing the explanatory gap, Thomas W. Clark; the why of consciousness- a non-issue for materialists, Valerie Gray Hardcastle; there is nohard problem of consciousness, Kieron O'Hara and Tom Scutt; should weexpect to feel as if we understand consciousness?, Mark C. Price. Part3 The explanatory gap: consciousness and space, Colin McGinn; giving upon the hard problem of consciousness, Eugene O. Mills; there are noeasy problems of consciousness, E.J. Lowe; the easy problems ain't soeasy, David Hodgson; facing ourselves - incorrigibility and themind-body problem, Richard Warner; the hardness of the hard problem,William S. Robinson. Part 4 Physics: the nonlocality of mind, C.J.S.Clarke; conscious events as orchestrated space-time selections, StuartR. Hameroff and Roger Penrose; the hard problem - a quantum approach,Henry P. Stapp; physics, machines and the hard problem, Douglas J.Bilodeau. Part 5 Neuroscience and cognitive science: why neurosciencemay be able to explain consciousness, Francis Crick and Christof Koch;understanding subjectivity - global workspace theory and theresurrection of the observing self, Bernard J. Baars; the elements ofconsciousness and their neurodynamical correlates, Bruce MacLennan.Part 6 Rethinking nature: consciousness, information and panpsychism,William Seager; rethinking nature - a hard problem within the hardproblem, Gregg H. Rosenberg; solutions to the hard problem ofconsciousness, Benjamin Libet; turning "the hard problem" upside downand sideways, Piet Hut and Roger N. Shepard. Part 7 First-personperspectives: the relation of consciousness to the material world, MaxVelmand; neurophenomenology - a methodological remedy for the hardproblem, Francisco J. Varela; the hard problem - closing the empiricalgap, Jonathan Shear. Part 8 Response: moving forward on the problem ofconsciousness, David J. Chalmers.