David Chalmers And The Singularity That Will Probably Not Come
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 09:56
in Psychology & Sociology
David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the “hard problem” of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a thought experiment featuring zombies who act and talk exactly like humans, and yet have no conscious thought (I explained clearly what I think of that sort of thing in my essay on “The Zombification of Philosophy”). read more
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