{"id":193463,"date":"2024-07-24T12:23:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/chalmers-theory-of-consciousness"},"modified":"2024-07-24T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:23:22","slug":"chalmers-theory-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/chalmers-theory-of-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Chalmers\u2019 theory of consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chalmers-theory-of-consciousness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever since sharing Ned Block\u2019s talk on it, phenomenal consciousness has been on my mind. This week, I decided I needed to go back to the main spokesperson for the issue of subjective <i>experience<\/i>, David Chalmers, and his seminal paper <a href=\"http:\/\/consc.net\/papers\/facing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit I\u2019ve skimmed this paper numerous times, but always struggled after the main thesis. This time I soldiered on in a more focused manner, and was surprised by how much I agreed with him on many points.<\/p>\n<p>Chalmers starts off by acknowledging the <i>scientifically<\/i> approachable aspects of the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since sharing Ned Block\u2019s talk on it, phenomenal consciousness has been on my mind. This week, I decided I needed to go back to the main spokesperson for the issue of subjective experience, David Chalmers, and his seminal paper Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness. I have to admit I\u2019ve skimmed this paper [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}