Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness? — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds. — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people,… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a eural correlate of consciousness? — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"? — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
