David Chalmers: The Conscious Mind (excerpt) -- A Thinking Allowed DVD w/ Jeffrey Mishlove

NOTE: This is an excerpt from the two-part, 60-minute DVD.
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2dchalmers.html

Philosopher David Chalmers points out that most modern attempts to explain consciousness fail to address the fundamental problem of subjective experience--i.e., what it is like to be conscious. He argues for a "naturalistic dualism" in which non-physical consciousness is viewed as a fundamental aspect of nature.

David Chalmers, Ph.D., is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory."

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• dualism
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[loqiloqi]

Hey, look!

Isaac Newton with an Australian accent.

[kasaduhallo]

@Scofield0085 You can't put down Chalmers by using that kind of derogatory terms!Give a serious argument as to why he is wrong!

[stillstandin4you]

I would say that this conversation on consciousness is for philosophy, not Science

[nosenseofhumor1]

@StardustSpaceMonkey @AegeanKing i could go on and on, but id encourage you to read the well established arguments if youre actually interested.

[nosenseofhumor1]

@StardustSpaceMonkey @AegeanKing what about your parents' parents? how remarkable of a coincidence would it have to be for your brain to be able to not only interpret light as color, but for it to be able to do it in a wholly different way from your ancestors only a single generation back? thats irreducible complexity right there, thats single step convergent mutation on an order that statistically cannot ever happen. all people alive today have a common ancestor from no more than 5k years ago.

[nosenseofhumor1]

@StardustSpaceMonkey @AegeanKing yeah, ok, well if youre serious about the subject at all you will read consciousness explained by dennett. if you want to have a serious conversation on the subject im willing, but nothing about this conversation allows for brevity when dealing with the uninitiated. Try this concise argument on for size: would you say its unknowable that your personal experience of the color red is likely to be radically different from either of your parents? cont...

[papwalker99]

@petemh consciousness is a complex and high level model of responses and stimuli arising from emergent behaviour of numerous neuronal systems and subsystem interactions.

[papwalker99]

@JamesTR4 Not to mention proteins unfolding / de-naturing. Compounds oxidising, ionisation, phase transitions....

[AegeanKing]

@nosenseofhumor1 Yes, its such silly nonsense that science doesn't have even the slightest clue at how to approach the problem. Ur condescending tone betrays you as a know-it-all troll.

[lw256]

What year was this interview conducted in?

[lw256]

What year was this interview conducted in?

[StardustSpaceMonkey]

@nosenseofhumor1 You stating this mind numbing scientific argument must make it true. At least to you.