David Chalmers - Towards a Science of Consciousness

[tenzinsoepa]

just so you know, that black jacket dr. chalmers is wearing is his favourite jacket..he wears this jacket all the time.

[NaNAmbient]

"(...) all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, (...) we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imaginations of ourselves." (Bill Hicks) - regarding that last theory about "a piece of consciousness being everywhere" :)

[alainborgrave]

problem with the hard problem : as the easy problem encompassed all our behavior, it encompasses everything we say about consciousness too. So there is no hard problem after all since by solving the easy problem we will be able to understand everything we say about consciousness, and why we say these things. Chalmers himself saw this and called it t"the paradox of phenomenal judgement", though he's in denial bout its implications.

[alainborgrave]

Could you state the date the video was recorded ?

[jamesruscheinski]

During neural correlates of conscious experience, is there one neuron that correlates, or a network of neurons?

[vikingjanch]

Chalmers' thinking is both insightful and imaginative. But just to be a little deflationary I think his hair was definitely better before (I'm sorry, it is hard to ignore it).

[jamesruscheinski]

Can the first person subjective data in brain be correlated with energy of neurons?

[thembluetube]

have the phenomenologists not been interested in this for over 100 years?

[RobertWF]

I want to hear more about the pants psychist approach to consciousness. It is true I feel more (self) conscious when not wearing pants in public.

[DesertEagel]

"Everybody recognizes the hard problem"
One look at the comment section under any Chalmers video, and that line seems like a bad joke

[AkshayPatil-qfeh]

this is so indian philosophy guys, these are the exact thoughts the sages had when they tried to explained what is the "real you". which can be said that is the consciousness of a person. they told that it is a fundamental thing in this universe which is why everything is connected to everything and as a human we have to expand our awareness(consciousness) though entire universe by the methods of Yoga(a sanskrit word which means "to unite" or "a process of unification". which means unify yourself with the universe). Indian philosphers alos agreed to these facts.

[Pienotto]

This is not the Chalmers that I used to love. His philosophical ability is directly proportional to the length of his hair.

[kyranmccourt]

Only consciousness is fundamental, Consciousness is the computer

[chrisc]

Consciousness and superconsciousness are not equals and carelessly disrespect in the facility of learning.

[schleichface]

It just hit me: Lisa Randall and David Chalmers share the same distinct cadence in their speech.

[simonhibbs]

Personally I believe conciousness is an emergent behaviour from the neurological processes of the brain. In other words it's a category of emergent behaviours and there are many other emergent behaviours of complex systems, such as evolution which is an emergent behaviour of biology. Panpsychism seems to me to be flipping this around and using the term conciousness to refer to all emergent behaviours of everything that has behaviour (i.e. that exists). So I think it might have some value if it gets people thinking about emergent behaviours, but using the term conciousness for that is assuming a result. By using a specific term to refer to a general category it's pre-loading the terms of the inquiry.

[friedrichschopenhauer]

He looks a lot more respectable without all that crazed hair.

[tigno]

Consciousness evolved from the Planck scale? More complexity = higher consciousness?

[bobrolander]

*Integrated Information Theory! Quantified, measurable qualia.*

[charlesstrusesr]

Good afternoon Sir. I am Chuck Struse Sr. Please you tube ...captivus brevis... a new theoretical theory... this is a short 2 minute video I made. I would like to engage in a discussion with you if possible. My thoughts go much further than just this short 2 minute video. I hope you will find this interesting and very far reaching. Thank you so very much for your kindness, respectfully...Chuck...