Hard Problem

Hard problem may refer to:

  • Hard problems in computational complexity theory
  • The hard problem of consciousness: explaining why we have qualitative phenomenal experiences

Famous quotes containing the words hard and/or problem:

    “The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “And just as there are no words for the surface, that is,
    No words to say what it really is, that it is not
    Superficial but a visible core, then there is
    No way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)