Chalmers, now 50, was born and raised in Australia. His parents split up when he was five. “My father is a medical researcher, a pretty successful scientist and administrator in medicine in Australia… ...

This blog was co-authored by Gregg Henriques, Ph.D., and John Vervaeke, Ph.D. Since the dawn of human consciousness, people have grappled with the problem of what it is and how it works. In academic ...

TWENTY years ago this week, two young men sat in a smoky bar in Bremen, northern Germany. Neuroscientist Christof Koch and philosopher David Chalmers had spent the day lecturing at a conference about ...

Is it those "magical" moments, that augmented reality movie produced by our brains? For philosopher David Chalmers, "consciousness is one of the essential facts of human existence" while being "the ...

THE Australian-born philosopher David Chalmers has long made waves in the world of consciousness. In 1994, at the age of just 28, he coined the phrase “the hard problem of consciousness” to describe ...

There are easy problems, and there are hard problems. Let’s get the easy one out of the way first. Understanding how the brain reacts to certain stimuli is relatively easy. If you stub your toe, ...

At the moment, you’re reading these words and, presumably, thinking about what the words and sentences mean. Or perhaps your mind has wandered, and you’re thinking about dinner, or looking forward to ...

Start with Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra, and a robot that loves you no matter what. Add a knighted British physicist, a renowned French neuroscientist, and a prominent ...

On a muggy June night in New York City, more than 800 neuroscientists, philosophers and curious members of the public packed into an auditorium. They came for the first results of an ambitious ...