"I had the idea that it would be……" — David Chalmers
"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 when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered."
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26 Quotes by 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…
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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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