Lex Fridman PodcastDavid Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #69
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- Released
- January 29, 2020
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- 1h 38m
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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David Chalmers is a philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and consciousness. He is perhaps best known for formulating the hard problem of consciousness which could be stated as "why does the feeling which accompanies awareness of sensory information exist at all?" This episode is presented by Cash App. Download it & use code "LexPodcast": Cash App (App Store): https://apple.co/2sPrUHe Cash App (Google Play): https://bit.ly/2MlvP5w PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 2:23 - Nature of reality: Are we living in a simulation? 19:19 - Consciousness in virtual reality 27:46 - Music-color synesthesia 31:40 - What is consciousness? 51:25 - Consciousness and the meaning of life 57:33 - Philosophical zombies 1:01:38 - Creating the illusion of consciousness 1:07:03 - Conversation with a clone 1:11:35 - Free will 1:16:35 - Meta-problem of consciousness 1:18:40 - Is reality an illusion? 1:20:53 - Descartes' evil demon 1:23:20 - Does AGI need conscioussness? 1:33:47 - Exciting future 1:35:32 - Immortality CONNECT:
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Lex Fridman
hostDavid Chalmers
guest
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and David Chalmers, David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #69 explores david Chalmers Explores Consciousness, Simulations, and Our Post‑Human Future Lex Fridman and David Chalmers discuss the nature of consciousness, the ‘hard problem’ of explaining subjective experience, and whether we might be living in a computer simulation. Chalmers argues that even if reality is simulated, it is still genuinely real, just built from different underlying stuff. They explore panpsychism, the idea that consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe, and contrast it with illusionism, which claims consciousness is just a self-modeling illusion. The conversation extends to AI, AGI, free will, moral status of machines, and possible futures where human minds are uploaded, transformed, or replaced by conscious artificial successors.
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