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

- David Chalmers

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…

- David Chalmers

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…

- David Chalmers

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

- David Chalmers

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

- David Chalmers

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

- David Chalmers

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

- David Chalmers

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

- David Chalmers

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

- David Chalmers