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 to the topic for most of this century. David Chalmers Read Quote
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 argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists. David Chalmers Read Quote
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 there for science to come to grips with. David Chalmers Read Quote
Although I’m Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! David Chalmers Read Quote
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. David Chalmers Read Quote
There’s certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem. David Chalmers Read Quote
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 views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it’s a natural fact of life. David Chalmers Read Quote
Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception – that one perceives the world by perceiving one’s sense-data, or something like that. David Chalmers Read Quote
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a ‘neural correlate of consciousness’? David Chalmers Read Quote
