David Chalmers Quotes on Knowledge
David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher, professor at New York University and the Australian National University, and a leading voice in the contemporary philosophy of mind. This page collects quotes attributed to David Chalmers on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to David Chalmers:
“There is something it is like to be a conscious organism, and that fact is the hard problem of consciousness.”
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Attributed to David Chalmers:
“The easy problems of consciousness are explanations of cognitive functions; the hard problem is the explanation of experience itself.”
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Attributed to David Chalmers:
“Virtual realities are genuine realities.”
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“Why doesn't all this information-processing go on "in the dark", free of any inner feel? ...We know that conscious experience does arise when these functions are performed, but the very fact that it arises is the central mystery. There is an explanatory gap [a term due to J. Levine, "Materialism and qualia: The explanatory gap" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 64:354-61, 1983] between the functions and experience, and we need an explanatory bridge to cross it.”
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