text: **Overview**
  
  Cognitive scientist David Chalmers first formulated the hard problem in his paper "Facing up to the 
  problem of consciousness" (1995)[1] and expanded upon it in*The Conscious Mind*(1996). His works 
  provoked comment. Some, such as philosopher David Lewis and Steven Pinker, have praised Chalmers 
  for his argumentative rigour and "impeccable clarity".[27] Pinker later said, in 2018, "In the end I still 
  think that the hard problem is a meaningful conceptual problem, but agree with Dennett that it is not a 
  meaningful scientific problem. No one will ever get a grant to study whether you are a zombie or whether 
  the same Captain Kirk walks on the deck of the Enterprise and the surface of Zakdorn. And I agree with 
  several other philosophers that it may be futile to hope for a solution at all, precisely because it is a 
  conceptual problem, or, more accurately, a problem with our concepts."[28] Daniel Dennett and Patricia 
  Churchland, among others, believe that the hard problem is best seen as a collection of easy problems that 
  will be solved through further analysis of the brain and behaviour.[29][30] 