David Chalmers Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive…
• Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.
• Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
• 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…
• 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…
• Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out…
• It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
• There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
• Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by…
• People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
• Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual…
• How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?
• Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.
• Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there…
• 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…
• Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached…
• What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?
• I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton…

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