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Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

~David Chalmers

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What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?

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There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

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I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.

~David Chalmers

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Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

~David Chalmers

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Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

~David Chalmers

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Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.

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I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

~David Chalmers

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Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.

~David Chalmers

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My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

~David Chalmers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 20th, 1966

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