David Chalmers

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Personal website - consc.net

David Chalmers on Wikipedia

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Book "Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy", David Chalmers, 2022

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How do you explain consciousness? | David Chalmers

Jul 14, 2014

Our consciousness is a fundamental aspect of our existence, says philosopher David Chalmers: "There's nothing we know about more directly.... but at the same time it's the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe." He shares some ways to think about the movie playing in our heads.

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Prof. David Chalmers - Artifical Intelligence & Consciousness

Published on Oct 25, 2017

Prof. Chalmers is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.

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David Chalmers: The hard problem of consciousness | Artificial Intelligence (AI) podcast

Jan 29, 2020

David Chalmers is a philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and consciousness. He is perhaps best known for formulating the hard problem of consciousness which could be stated as "why does the feeling which accompanies awareness of sensory information exist at all?" This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.

Outline:

0:00 - Introduction
2:23 - Nature of reality: Are we living in a simulation?
19:19 - Consciousness in virtual reality
27:46 - Music-color synesthesia
31:40 - What is consciousness?
51:25 - Consciousness and the meaning of life
57:33 - Philosophical zombies
1:01:38 - Creating the illusion of consciousness
1:07:03 - Conversation with a clone
1:11:35 - Free will
1:16:35 - Meta-problem of consciousness
1:18:40 - Is reality an illusion?
1:20:53 - Descartes' evil demon
1:23:20 - Does AGI need conscioussness?
1:33:47 - Exciting future
1:35:32 - Immortality