"People have managed to avert their eyes and……" — David Chalmers
"People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best."
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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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Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except…
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More Avert Quotes
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If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
— Camille Paglia
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When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science,…
— Paul Krugman
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The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles,…
— Kumi Naidoo
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Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just…
— Al Gore
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There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster.…
— Tony Blair
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Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes…
— Elizabeth Moon
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The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And…
— Robert Olen Butler
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The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport…
— Kumi Naidoo
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In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
— Hafez
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