{"id":231437,"date":"2026-02-16T10:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/panpsychism-and-explaining-consciousness-ted-talk-david-chalmers"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:09:56","slug":"panpsychism-and-explaining-consciousness-ted-talk-david-chalmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/panpsychism-and-explaining-consciousness-ted-talk-david-chalmers","title":{"rendered":"Panpsychism and Explaining Consciousness \u2014 TED Talk \u2014 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\/SiYfN7-gaLk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Our consciousness is a fundamental aspect of our existence, says philosopher David Chalmers: \u201cThere\u2019s nothing we know about more directly\u2026 but at the same time it\u2019s the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe.\u201d He shares some ways to think about the movie playing in our heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our consciousness is a fundamental aspect of our existence, says philosopher David Chalmers: \u201cThere\u2019s nothing we know about more directly\u2026 but at the same time it\u2019s the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe.\u201d He shares some ways to think about the movie playing in our heads.<\/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-231437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231437","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=231437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}