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 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 123 | -5 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 123 | 0 |
| Jerry Xu | Claremont B | UCSD | 124 | 0 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 124 | 10 |
| Samuel Stella | Florida State A | UCF C | 124 | 0 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Florida State A | 124 | 0 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Carnegie Mellon B | 124 | 0 |
| Joshua Garner | Ohio State B | Carnegie Mellon A | 124 | 0 |
| Declan Cobb | Wisconsin A | Iowa State | 124 | 0 |
| JD Kroth | Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 124 | 0 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Minnesota B | 124 | 0 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Carleton | 124 | 0 |
| Meggy Mani | Georgetown B | Northwestern B | 124 | 0 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame C | Iowa | 124 | 0 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | Notre Dame C | 124 | 0 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame A | 124 | 0 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 124 | 0 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Louisville A | 124 | 0 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Tennessee A | 124 | 0 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | Warwick B | 124 | 0 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Bristol | 124 | 0 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield | Cambridge D | 124 | 0 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Oxford B | 124 | 0 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Cambridge C | 124 | 0 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Southampton A | 124 | 0 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Manchester | 124 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | George Washington A | 124 | 0 |
| Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | Haverford A | 124 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Haverford B | 124 | 0 |
| Sasha Wertime | Haverford B | Maryland B | 124 | 0 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | NYU B | 124 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | Binghamton A | 124 | 0 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell D | 124 | 0 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | Cornell C | 124 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | RIT B | 124 | 0 |