TEDxSydney - David Chalmers - The Extended Mind

David Chalmers is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University.

Chalmers is interested in the relationship between mind, brain and reality. He is best known for formulating the "hard problem" of consciousness and for his arguments against materialism.

His 1996 book The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory was highly successful with both popular and academic audiences. In 2010 he gave the John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford. These will shortly be published as his book Constructing the World . He also works on language, metaphysics, and artificial intelligence.

http://tedxsydney.com/site/newSpeakers.cfm#DavidChalmers
http://anu.edu.au
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[virgozero]

I can't help but cringe at his jokes..... >.<

[HoloplexProductions]

11:05 The Socially Extended Mind - Synthetic Telepathy

[ArcadianGenesis]

@moonfreak1993 Can you please elaborate? I'm not sure what you were responding to or what point you were trying to make.

[moonfreak1993]

@ArcadianGenesis  Quantum Phyics my friend :)

[ArcadianGenesis]

@MGTGR123 I'm the opposite. I generally find Chalmers' ideas weak and unconvincing, but I completely agree with the extended mind thesis (which, by the way, was not his idea).

[MGTGR123]

Love David Chalmers but don't quite agree with this.

[Khuno2]

I know who David Chalmers is, boy.  The criticismS remain.

[arnoldlayne1991]

@Khuno2 This man is one of the most widely published, distinguished and respected philosophers in the academic world. Read one of him many papers on the matter (all available on his website), and if you can understand it, then you will realise this.

[TheFunkyTheist]

Next time my teacher tell me i can't use a calculator in class, im gonna say, ima have david chalmers beat yo ass!!!!

[TheFunkyTheist]

@Khuno2 You're in acedemia? That would explain who the douchebag is.