Philosopher David Chalmers: “Perhaps there is a consciousness of the smartphone”

Modern instruments can determine what happens in the brain when we are dreaming, fantasizing, or thinking. But they do not explain how the individual bursts of activity are woven into a holistic sense of “The Self”.

June 14, 2016 David Chalmers gave a lecture at the Moscow State University at the invitation of the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies. We talked with him about how he imagines the problem of consciousness today and what is the importance of philosophers’s work in the field.
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