Stoppard's 'Hard Problem' grapples with big ideas at the Wilma
Last month playwright Tom Stoppard, author of The Hard Problem, and David Chalmers, the philosopher who coined the titular phrase, appeared on the Wilma Theater stage to discuss, muse upon, and debate the nature of consciousness. What, Stoppard wondered aloud, is the connection between consciousness and value, "undemonstrable, undefinable, but necessary value"? Chalmers quipped that "consciousness is t…