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David Chalmers: David Chalmers at the Munich School of Philosophy, 2011

Portrait: David Chalmers at the Munich School of Philosophy, 2011. HerbertErwin, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.

Philosopherborn 1966

David Chalmers

David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher who gave the hard problem of consciousness its name: why all the brain's processing is accompanied by inner experience at all, rather than going on in the dark. In Reality+ he turned to virtual worlds, taking seriously the idea that we might live in a simulation and arguing that virtual worlds are real worlds.

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