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The term 'Explanatory Gap' is a modern philosophical term which is well described by John Horgan in his 1999 book "The Undiscovered Mind': The term (explanatory gap) was coined by Joseph Levine, a philosopher at North Carolina State University in "Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap" published in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly in 1983. "Levine addressed the puzzling inability of physiological theories to account for psychological phenomena.