David Chalmers

“Where there is simple information processing, there is simple experience. And where there is complex information processing, there is complex experience.”

“The extended mind thesis says that the mind is not all in the head.”

“Why is it that when our brains process information, we have an inner life?”

“My view is that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe, like space-time or mass-energy.”

“It seems that the philosophical temperament is more common in mathematics than in the other sciences. I'm not sure why, but it may be that the abstract nature of mathematics is congenial to the philosophical mind.”

“The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience.”

“A philosophical zombie is a hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being in every physical way but lacks conscious experience.”

“Consciousness is the biggest mystery. It's the one that seems to be the most resistant to a conventional scientific explanation.”

“For any physical process we specify there will be an unanswered question: Why is it accompanied by experience?”

“The easy problems of consciousness include the following: how can a human subject discriminate sensory stimuli and react to them appropriately?”

“We can know everything about the physical processes in the brain and still not know why they give rise to conscious experience.”

“I argue that we should take the possibility of a simulated reality seriously.”