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David Chalmers quotes

American Philosopher April 20, 1966

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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. David Chalmers
David Chalmers quote: "People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best."
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best. David Chalmers
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. David Chalmers
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. David Chalmers
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. David Chalmers
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
Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news. David Chalmers
David Chalmers quote: "Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia."
Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia. David Chalmers
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
David Chalmers quote: "It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I..."
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. David Chalmers
David Chalmers quote: "Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy..."
Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! David Chalmers
David Chalmers quote: "There's certainly nothing original about the observation that..."
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem. David Chalmers
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. David Chalmers
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
David Chalmers quote: "What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural..."
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"? David Chalmers

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