Questions tagged [david-chalmers]
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What are book recommendations on Philosophy of Consciousness by contemporary authors?
I am looking for a book that is more focused on the philosophy of consciousness(rather than general topic of Phil. of Mind) which takes up the hard problem as a major theme. Can you guys give me reccomendations for books (or even other reading…
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Why does Chalmers' argument about "the hard problem" not entail idealism?
Chalmers famously argues in Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness:
At the end of the day, the same criticism applies to any purely physical account of consciousness. For any physical process we specify there will be an unanswered question: Why…
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From a functionalist point of view: when is an algorithm an A.I., and when is it just software?
Recently, The Atlantic published an article claiming that "Google Taught an AI That Sorts Cat Photos to Analyze DNA". When you look at the original paper published by the Google team, what they really did was take a neural network model normally…
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What is David Chalmers' Naturalistic dualism?
Can somebody explain to me exactly what David Chalmers' Naturalistic dualism is, because I have heard a lot of conflicting explanations on it?
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Can the hard problem of consciousness, in principle, be answered with a mathematical formula?
By "answering the hard problem with a formula," what I mean is to give a formula F that takes as input a mathematical representation of a physical system, and produces as output a mathematical representation of what the physical system is…
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How does Chalmers' "hard problem" differ from "the problem of other minds" ?
It's not clear to me how Chalmers conceives of the "hard problem" of consciousness as separate from "the problem of other minds". He seems to wish to differentiate himself from those who see consciousness as an unsolvable mystery, and yet the…
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What caused the turns from monism to dualism in Russell and Chalmers?
Why did Chalmers shift from idealism to dualism? And Russell from materialism to neutral monism?
Edit: The particulars of Russell is recounted in A.C. Grayling's 'Russell: A Very Short Introduction' (1996/2002). I reread the section and gather…
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What would a possible solution to the hard problem of consciousness look like?
The hard problem of consciousness is stated as-
'why objective, mechanical processing can give rise to subjective experiences.'
The reason I ask this question is that if we do not even know what a possible solution to this problem should look like,…
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Are David Chalmers' definitions of strong and weak emergence scientifically testable when applied to consciousness as emerging from physics?
David J. Chalmers defines strong and weak emergence in his paper Strong and Weak Emergence:
1. Two concepts of emergence
The term ‘emergence’ often causes confusion in science and philosophy, as it is used
to express at least two quite different…
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Critique of those missing the Hard Problem?
From everything I've ever seen about the “Hard Problem of Consciousness”, the issue is that materialists and physicalists presume a different question and answer that one instead.
I feel like the two parties are talking across each other. What I…
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Clarifying Chalmers argument against materialism about consciousness
If I understand the argument David Chalmers makes in The Conscious Mind or this article, he argues that:
a) We can imagine philosophical zombies
b) This is a good test of logical coherence
c) If there were p-zombies, there would be truths that would…
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Why is Chalmer's naturalistic dualism not a form of non-reductive physicalism?
Related to a question on physicalism and a priori (Do physicalists think a priori knowledge exists?), I alleged that David Chalmers naturalistic dualism is a non-reduction physicalist position. It is a fair challenge to construe naturalistic dualism…
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Chalmers' two-dimensional argument against materialism
I'm trying to understand David Chalmers' two-dimensional argument against materialism in philosophy of mind (here). I'm particularly confused by the paragraph (pp. 11-12) where he claims that it's not necessary for the primary and secondary…
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Ned Block, David Chalmers, phenomenal vs access consciousness
What is the difference between "access" consciousness and "phenomenal" consciousness as described by Ned Block? Loosely it seems like "access" consciousness is with regards to the "intellect" (thoughts, understanding, decision making... what we call…
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In Chalmer’s understanding, is a “philosophical zombie” roughly identical to Descartes’ automaton?
I suppose one must say, for Descartes, the automaton was specifically mechanistic. Which is a difference.
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