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David John Chalmers (/ˈtʃælmərz/; born 20 April 1966) is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. He is also a University Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science, and a Director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness (along with Ned Block) at New York University. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

Consciousness, Know, Mind, Nothing, Problem

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?

Mean, Doe, Consciousness, Exactly, System, Given

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.

Thinking, Views, People, Relationship, Cognitive, View

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

Avert, Eye, Hope, Hoping For The Best, Managed, People

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.

Philosophy, Thinking, Years, Topics, Think, Neglected

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

Lying, Years, Ideas, Wonderful, Fundamental

I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

Character, Thinking, Our World, Brain, Laws

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.

Interesting, Study, Computer, Grips, Seemed

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.

Psychology, Overcoming, Topics, Century, Paradigms, Attached

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.

Conceivable, Ideas, Including, People, Physicalists, Thinking

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

Sympathy, Australian, Versions, Although, Austrian

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

Giving, Doe, Rich, Life, Rise, Objectively

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

Problem, Conscious, Observation, Original, Hard, Experience

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

Thinking, People, Accepting, Think, Qualia

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

Wine, Water, Brain, Turn