Dear loved ones,

 Have you ever reflected upon your subjective experiences? Do you know where this subjective, private experience comes from? If you find it difficult to discover and explain your qualitative experiences stay tuned with me because here, I am coming to you with a book " The Conscious Mind - In Search of a Fundamental Theory" which is the masterpiece of a prominent philosopher David Chalmers. Which gives a clear understanding of the personal experiences.

Here I am going to discuss three philosophical ideas that are highly commendable and captivating which bring out the reality of my nature of myself as a conscious being.

 The first and most effective philosophical concept is " phenomenal consciousness" which suggests the unique idea of my subjective, qualitative, and inner conscious experiences of seeing a beautiful sunrise, the taste of delicious food feelings of joy and pain. This phenomenon of consciousness is also known as the Qualia experience. It is an individual's experience. These feelings and experiences are highly personal and subjective. The experience I have of seeing a beautiful red rose is absolutely mine and no others can have the same experience as I received in the same way personal experiences of eating ice cream will not be the same but different for each individual.

 The second concept is "Hard problem of consciousness " which extends from the Qualia experience.  This idea is really mysterious because where these subjective experiences occur is beyond my comprehension. This idea perplexed me and drowned my attention to reflect on where these personal or subjective experiences come from. I can tell the taste of biryani but I can't tell from where and how I get such experience. So, this problem remains a mystery for I cannot express where my personal experiences come from.

 The third concept is “phenomenal Zombies.” I am sure many have come across Zombies in Hollywood movies but in the book, Chalmers has discussed the Zombies who are similar in all aspects like speaking, walking means everything they do is exactly as any other human does but they lack conscious experiences. They don't experience feelings of pain, joy, sadness color of a red rose and taste, etc.

 Dear friends if you really want to know the mystery of your personal, subjective, and qualitative experiences I would recommend you to read this above-mentioned book and get benefited.

 

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