David Chalmers Quotes

• Ahora tengo que decir que soy un ateo completo, yo mismo no tengo puntos de vista religiosos ni espirituales, excepto puntos de vista espirituales humanistas muy diluidos, y la conciencia es sólo un hecho de la vida, es un hecho natural de la vida.

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  Espiritual, religioso, ateo

  "David Chalmers on the Big Conundrum: Consciousness". Interview with Natasha Mitchell, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2003.

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• Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

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  Mind, Problem, Consciousness

  David J. Chalmers (2010). “The Character of Consciousness”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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• How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

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  Wine, Water, Brain

  "Einstein's Brain and the Question of Consciousness in Defying Depression" by Tony Lobl, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. November 20, 2012.

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• Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

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  Giving, Doe, Rich

  David J. Chalmers (2010). “The Character of Consciousness”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

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  Pensamiento, Mundo, Revolución

  "David Chalmers on the Big Conundrum: Consciousness". Interview with Natasha Mitchell, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2003.

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• People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

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  Eye, People, Hoping For The Best

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• What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?

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  Mean, Doe, Consciousness

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• Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

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  Thinking, People, Accepting

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• 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.

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  Interesting, Study, Computer

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• A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.

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  Zombie, World, Might

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• 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.

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  Pensamiento, Ideas, Personas

  "Zombies and consciousness". Interview with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. September 10, 2011.

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• There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

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  Problem, Conscious, Observation

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• En realidad, creo que mi punto de vista es compatible con gran parte del trabajo que se está realizando actualmente en neurociencia y psicología, donde la gente está estudiando la relación de la conciencia con los procesos neuronales y cognitivos sin tratar realmente de reducirla a esos procesos.

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  Pensamiento, Opiniones, Personas

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• 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.

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  Data, Perception, World

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• 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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  Lying, Years, Ideas

  "David Chalmers on the Big Conundrum: Consciousness". Interview with Natasha Mitchel, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2003.

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• En cualquier caso, se están llevando a cabo muchos trabajos realmente interesantes en la neurociencia y la psicología de la conciencia, y me encantaría que los filósofos se implicaran más en ello.

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  Interesting, Psychology, Philosopher

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• Creo que la conciencia siempre ha sido el tema más importante de la filosofía de la mente, y uno de los más importantes de la ciencia cognitiva en su conjunto, pero había sido sorprendentemente descuidado en los últimos años.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Years

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• Dentro de la psicología y la neurociencia, algunos paradigmas experimentales nuevos y rigurosos para estudiar la conciencia han ayudado a que ésta empiece a superar el estigma que ha estado unido al tema durante la mayor parte de este siglo.

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  Psychology, Overcoming, Topics

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• My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

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  Mathematics, Mathematician, Interest

  "David Chalmers on the Big Conundrum: Consciousness". Interview with Natasha Mitchell, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2003.

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• Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

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  Sympathy, Australian, Versions

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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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  Helping, Language, Speak

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• I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

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  Character, Thinking, Our World

  "Zombies and consciousness". "The Philosopher's Zone" with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. September 10, 2011.

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• Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

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  Trying, Principles, Fundamentals

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