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This book, written by David Chalmers, was mentioned as his PhD thesis which was published in 1994 and brought back to the table the concept of the hard problem of consciousness. It was further discussed as a point of departure for Chalmers to take panpsychism seriously.
I mean you mentioned David Charmers as you say here and this brilliant young philosopher who in 1994 published his PhD thesis the conscious mind which brought back in on to the table that what he call...
— Episode: 194. Searching for God within Oxford and...
Episode: 194. Searching for God within Oxford and Cambridge...
This book, written by David Chalmers, was mentioned as his PhD thesis which was published in 1994 and brought back to the table the concept of the hard problem of consciousness. It was further discussed as a point of departure for Chalmers to take panpsychism seriously.
I mean you mentioned David Charmers as you say here and this brilliant young philosopher who in 1994 published his PhD thesis the conscious mind which brought back in on to the table that what he called the hard problem of consciousness and he passed that in different ways that there's something absolutely irreducible about qualitative experience but the problem that then opens up that he that then I think leads him towards taking panpsychism very very seriously this is just really in the last 10 years I think is the idea well okay we've got consciousness it's a hard problem we just can't get rid of it and yet we can't get rid of matter either we can't get rid of the the truths of the physical sciences and we but we can't work out how enough these fit together they couldn't be laws of nature they couldn't be psychoanalytic or psychological laws the laws of thought are fundamentally different from the laws of nature so how do we fit these two together and panpsychism at that point though it might seem crazy to the person on this treat suddenly starts to seem quite an attractive an attractive account of the nature of ultimate reality
