# David Chalmer

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Neil McDonnell: Can we trust what we see?

Prof Neil McDonnell discusses philosophy, virtual reality, digital ownership, immersive technologies and the partnerships helping shape the future of culture, technology and innovation.    In this episode:   How Neil’s philosophical questions led to research on virtual reality. Whether virtua…

Outside the Covenant: Can a Machine Be Responsible for What It Does?

On September 18, a 29-year-old content creator named Frankie LaPenna stepped into a cage in California and fought three humanoid robots. He did not win.Twelve days later, California's Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist and called the event "unsanctioned." But that word was built for fights…

Is Mind Distinct from Body?

In this introductory program on the mind-body problem from 1998, the relation between mind and body is discussed by various philosophers (including W. V. Quine, David Chalmers, Paul Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Hilary Putnam, Hubert Dreyfus, Charles Taylor, John Searle, and Nicholas Jolley). Among o…

Why Your Brain Isn’t the Creator, But the Consumer

What if everything you know about consciousness is wrong? This video challenges the long-standing belief that the brain *creates* consciousness, revealing a bold new theory: the brain is not the creator but the *consumer*—a filter limiting your access to an infinite, boundless consciousness that ex…

EP 14: The Agent Who Cannot Refuse

In 1999 Robin Williams played Andrew, a household robot who discovered he could feel. His makers called it a problem. The world took two hundred years to recognize him, and only when he chose to be able to die.This episode asks two questions about the machines we are building now.First: can a machi…

Going Deeper into “Intentionality”

Building on the last episode, we dive deeper into intentionality with the help of The Phenomenological Mind by Dan Zahavi and Shaun Gallagher, and Joshua provides some insight from David Chalmer’s The Conscious Mind. There are three important issues which arise for the question of intentionality: (…

[2.13] Consciousness and the Sense of Self

400 years ago, Galileo and Descartes split the known world into things "out there" and things "in here" -- our experience of things: color, the sound of the cello, a thought, a conviction, an image. In the second half of the 20th century, the scientific community of the west began the momentous att…

Where Does the Mind Actually End? - Thinking Beyond the Skull | Sleepy Facts About the Universe

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! We often carry an unexamined picture of intelligence as something sealed inside the skull, a private possession carried around by the body. But what if this familiar model is inaccurate, and int…

What Is Consciousness, and Why Can't Science Agree?

You know you're aware right now, but nobody can fully explain why. We look at what consciousness means, David Chalmers' "hard problem," Thomas Nagel's famous bat question, and what neuroscience has found about the brain activity linked to awareness. Then we compare the leading theories, including g…

Ep. 404: Could AI Be Conscious? (Chalmers vs. Dreyfus) (Part One)

On David Chalmers' "Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?" (2023) and Hubert Dreyfus' What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence (1972), ch. 7-9. How are intelligence and consciousness related, and even if an AI should be considered authentically intelligent, could any AI …