Philosophy · 18 min
The Conscious Mind
By David Chalmers
This episode explores why your subjective experience of the world isn't just a complex brain function, but a fundamental mystery challenging our understanding of reality itself.
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Philosophy
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18 min
What it is about
Consciousness, Philosophy of Mind, Subjective Experience
Who it is for
If you've ever felt that your inner experience of the world is more than just brain chemistry, this will sharpen your understanding of consciousness, and this will help you see what to do next.
The author
David Chalmers is a philosopher who precisely articulated the "hard problem" of consciousness, forcing science and philosophy to confront the fundamental gap between physical brain processes and subjective experience.
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