{"id":222717,"date":"2025-10-01T00:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/materialism-and-consciousness-the-case-of-philosophical-zombies-david-chalmers"},"modified":"2025-10-01T00:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:12:04","slug":"materialism-and-consciousness-the-case-of-philosophical-zombies-david-chalmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/materialism-and-consciousness-the-case-of-philosophical-zombies-david-chalmers","title":{"rendered":"Materialism and Consciousness: The Case of Philosophical Zombies David Chalmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/72ZCysmOQtA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the Royal Institute of Philosophy\u2019s 15-minute Philosophy Briefings, a series in which eminent philosophers provide their own view of a key philosophical topic, in straightforward and accessible language.<\/p>\n<p>Each one is designed to be a resource for anyone who wants to know more about these questions, whether you are covering them at A-level, teaching them at A-level, studying Philosophy at university, or are simply curious to know more.<\/p>\n<p>David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at New York University and co-director of NYU\u2019s Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, looks at whether there exist philosophical zombies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the Royal Institute of Philosophy\u2019s 15-minute Philosophy Briefings, a series in which eminent philosophers provide their own view of a key philosophical topic, in straightforward and accessible language. Each one is designed to be a resource for anyone who wants to know more about these questions, whether you are covering them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222717","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=222717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}