Words matter. These are the best David Chalmers Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There’s certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
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.
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.
Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists’ language.
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.
