Frases de David Chalmers

David John Chalmers é um filósofo australiano, notabilizado por seus estudos em Filosofia da mente.

Chalmers é professor de filosofia e diretor do centro de estudos da consciência da Universidade Nacional da Austrália e publica artigos, ensaios e novos livros com regularidade. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Abril 1966
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“Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious.”

David Chalmers livro The Conscious Mind

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996)

“The easy problems of consciousness are those that seem directly susceptible to the standard methods of cognitive science, whereby a phenomenon is explained in terms of computational or neural mechanisms. The hard problems are those that seem to resist those methods. …The really hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience.”

When we think and perceive, there is a whir of information-processing, but there is also a subjective aspect. ...When we see, for example, we experience visual sensations: the felt quality of redness, the experience of dark and light, the quality of depth in a visual field. Other experiences go along with perception in different modalities: the sound of a clarinet, the smell of mothballs. Then there are bodily sensations, from pains to orgasms; mental images that are conjured up internally; the felt quality of emotion, and the experience of a stream of conscious thought.
"Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness," 1995