"A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated,……" — David Chalmers
"A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds."
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26 Quotes by David Chalmers
David Chalmers has 26 quotes on this site.
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Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think…
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I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a…
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I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the…
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Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.
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Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
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Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I…
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Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where…
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Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about…
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It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
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There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
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Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that…
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People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul…
— Alexander Pope
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The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused.... We discover…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a…
— Richard Lindzen
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Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified…
— Ann Coulter
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We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material…
— R. D. Laing
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'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
— Sarah Dessen
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Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
— Charles Simic
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Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'
— Dennis Lehane
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"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed…
— Stephen King
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I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many…
— Sarah Dessen
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Ryan stared at me as I pulled my phone out to see who was calling at this late hour. “You…
— Diana Rowland
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We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.
— Julia Child
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