"The Varieties of Self-Awareness" (David Chalmers) (2/8)

The 39th CSU Fullerton Philosophy Symposium: Consciousness and the Self: Self-awareness, Self-Thought, Self-reference, and Self-Knowledge (2009)

Day 2 (Wed April 30, 2009)
Titan Theater, Titan Student Union

Session 8:
David Chalmers. Australian National University. "Consciousness and Self-Knowledge"

This is a video of Chalmers' talk ONLY. (If you wish to see video of the entire two-day symposium, including commentaries and Q&A sessions, please contact CSU Fullertons Philosophy Department.)

Chalmers' website: http://consc.net/chalmers/

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"There is no experience of one's mental state." Meaning thoughts are not physical so they may not ever be found in this physical world? So then should we look to quantum physics? At the quantum level a physical stare transforms to a metaphysical state, thoughts? Like the radioactive decay from a particle, so too does the cells of the brain emit energy, as noted with the EEG. If the individual thoughts of the cells can be found, that would be the day. More like a collective than a single thought.