David Chalmers - Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism?

How can you not love a genius, Australian, philospher-scientist who looks like he played lead guitar in Metallica? 😂 Chalmers is one of my philospher heros! So clear in laying out the philosophical positions regarding conciouness! Rock n roll brother! 👊🏻✌🏻⚡️⚡️

It always amazes me how many materialist scientists usually dismiss any hint of spirituality, trascendance, purpose, etc. as mysticism, magical thinking, wishful thinking, uncientific, unprobable and such... and then they declare so easily something like : "conscious experience EMERGES from the brain..." or so, and that's it. in wich way to say that differs from saying "conscious experience appears MAGICALLY...out of the blue..."?? both statements aport exactly the same information: zero. What the h... is TO EMERGE? To say "we have absolutely no clue about how is that happening" wold give a litle bit more info

I was waiting for the final part on idealism, but the video ended!

This is one of the best you've ever done, but you cut it off! Too short! Consciousness is fascinating and Chalmers did a very good job of going through the current ideas, but too short!

This is simply superb. Would love to see a discussion between David and Bernardo Kastrup; that would be a mind blowing experience in consciousness.

I’m here because of my fabulous teacher, and I have to say, I’m enjoying this more than I initially thought I would!

Really enjoyed this one. Thanks!

The Vedas state that everything is an expression of consciousness knowing itself. The transcendent, non material, absolute field of pure consciousness through it's self referral dynamics creates all the notions that we experience in the "material" world.

1) Consciousness is primary and material existence is secondary. 2) Material existence is primary and consciousness is secondary. 3) For any organism, they are experienced as arising mutually.

Of all the videos I've seen on consciousness, this interview and Kuhn's interview of Deepak Chopra struck me as the most insightful. Everyone else seems to talk around the subject without saying what it is. Chalmers analyses all the possible options, which clarifies things enormously, while Chopra actually attempts to define consciousness. Great stuff.

Another great video from Robert Khun's channel Closer To Truth. I'd just like to say THANK YOU for all the videos you have made. All the production and details and the kindness of your guests to participate and give us so many different slices of minds from the brightest among us. If we can't pinpoint exactly the first level of life that has consciousness, then it may extend all the way to inanimate things. Wayne from Northwest Alabama.

Brilliant! I’m on board! At 73 I have lovely new stuff to learn❤ thank you 🙏🏼 David

Great, great, great! The only thing I was missing here was the approach of Donald Hoffman, who basically says that consciousness is a one-way-street in the other direction: Consciousness creates all that we assume to be the physical world, including spacetime and matter.

"In the unobserved state, a quantum object does not have definite location in time or space, nor does it have definite properties, at least not in the way that we think of definite in classical terms. How can something be said to exist if it doesn't have properties, location, or existence in time? We don't know, but it suggests that something about our ordinary assumptions of an objective classical reality 'out there', independent of us, is mistaken." Dean Radin, Entangled Minds

Fascinating approach to the nature of consciousness.

Chalmers is one of the most amazing thoughtful and lucid philosopher scientists out there! 👏

When I was a grad student I had the immense pleasure of sharing a post-talk dinner with David Chalmers (he was presenting his Matrix as Metaphysics paper). Lovely guy, and a great philosopher. He seemed to take a genuine interested in my research, bless him.

It's really interesting to see materialists squirm when confronted with the possibility that their worldview is inaccurate. It's one thing to see a person confronting a new idea, or adjust to the possibility of realities they haven't considered. It's entirely something else to watch someone processing something they DON'T WANT to believe.

Ditto! Another great interview.

I always close my eyes and imagine looking at a lightbulb shining, it hurts my eyes and I immediately open them. I feel my consciousness can play with my body physics and that’s why, in addition to the wave function collapse, I go with the second alternative.