I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you ge….

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them do….

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive scie….

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language..

A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible ….

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really f….

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best..

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does..

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual view….

My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician..

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?.

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia..

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis ….

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stig….

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the wo….

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship….

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers ….

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem..

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, b….

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the b….