David J. Chalmers Quotes

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a...

Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious. There is nothing we know about more directly than consciousness, but it is far from clear how to reconcile...

Materialism is a beautiful and compelling view of the world, but to account for consciousness, we have to go beyond the resources it provides.

The subject matter is perhaps best characterized as the subjective quality of experience. When we perceive, think, and act, there is a whir of causation and information processing, but this processing...

Why should there be conscious experience at all? It is central to a subjective viewpoint, but from an objective viewpoint it is utterly unexpected. Taking the objective view, we can tell a story about...