Question
An “epistemic add-on” to this problem was posed in a paper that uses the example of Commander Data’s trial in a Star Trek episode. This problem is “about the performance of functions” like reportability and requires an “extra ingredient,” in contrast to a related problem about functions themselves, according to a paper “Facing Up to” both. A garage rock band lends its name to a view supported by Colin McGinn that this problem is unsolvable by humans, called new mysterianism. The “explanatory gap” refers to the difficulty of physicalist models in solving this problem, the name for which was coined by David Chalmers. For 10 points, name this problem in the philosophy of mind that asks how neurological processes give rise to subjective experience. ■END■
ANSWER: hard problem of consciousness [prompt on the problem of consciousness or descriptions; prompt on explanatory gap until read] (The paper in the first sentence is “The Harder Problem of Consciousness” by Ned Block, and the paper in the second sentence is “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness” by David Chalmers.)
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.33 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 119.50 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 60% | 88.50 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 0% | 74.00 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 40% | 83.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 76.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 25% | 0% | 25% | 76.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 88.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 94.71 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 0% | 93.00 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Johns Hopkins A | 69 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Vassar A | 71 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin B | 74 | 10 |
| Sam Hutton | Cambridge D | Sheffield | 74 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Durham | 74 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC | UW A | 76 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 76 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Oxford C | 76 | 10 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | UC Berkeley B | 77 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | Claremont A | 79 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Northwestern A | 79 | 10 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Cambridge E | 79 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Cambridge B | 82 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Penn B | 82 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Warwick A | 84 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | Texas B | 86 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Georgetown A | 87 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 87 | -5 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Kenyon | 88 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan B | Michigan A | 89 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | NYU A | 91 | 10 |
| Alex Zhu | Carnegie Mellon B | Ohio State A | 93 | -5 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Imperial B | 93 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | ESF A | 93 | 10 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Georgetown B | 99 | -5 |
| Xavier Migliaccio | Carnegie Mellon A | Ohio State B | 102 | -5 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Notre Dame B | 102 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | TAMU | 102 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Penn A | 102 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Imperial A | 113 | -5 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF B | 116 | 10 |
| Oliver Thompson | Case Western B | Michigan State | 117 | -5 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | NYU C | 118 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | Florida B | 123 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 123 | 0 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 123 | 0 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 123 | -5 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 124 | 10 |
| Jerry Xu | Claremont B | UCSD | 124 | 0 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Florida State A | 124 | 0 |
| Samuel Stella | Florida State A | UCF C | 124 | 0 |
| Joshua Garner | Ohio State B | Carnegie Mellon A | 124 | 0 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Carnegie Mellon B | 124 | 0 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Carleton | 124 | 0 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Minnesota B | 124 | 0 |
| JD Kroth | Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 124 | 0 |
| Declan Cobb | Wisconsin A | Iowa State | 124 | 0 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame C | Iowa | 124 | 0 |
| Meggy Mani | Georgetown B | Northwestern B | 124 | 0 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame A | 124 | 0 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | Notre Dame C | 124 | 0 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Tennessee A | 124 | 0 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Louisville A | 124 | 0 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 124 | 0 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Cambridge C | 124 | 0 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield | Cambridge D | 124 | 0 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Southampton A | 124 | 0 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Oxford B | 124 | 0 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Manchester | 124 | 10 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Bristol | 124 | 0 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | Warwick B | 124 | 0 |
| Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | Haverford A | 124 | 10 |
| Sasha Wertime | Haverford B | Maryland B | 124 | 0 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | NYU B | 124 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Haverford B | 124 | 0 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | George Washington A | 124 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | Binghamton A | 124 | 0 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | Cornell C | 124 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | RIT B | 124 | 0 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell D | 124 | 0 |