David Chalmers
@davidchalmers42
philosopher@NYU. consciousness, reality+, life, the universe, and everything.
i guess that makes me the holy ghost.
what’s being doubted is so-called phenomenal consciousness, a la the NYU trinity (Nagel, Block, Chalmers)
five excellent talks from the NYU workshop on functions of consciousness last month. speakers: dylan ludwig (who also organized), joshua shepherd (@ERC_Conscious), @MatthiasMichel_, marisa carrasco (@carrasco_lab), and @axelcleeremans. youtube.com/playlist?list=…
talking VR with @jackrweinstein in fargo, ND philosophyinpubliclife.org/2025/05/11/is-…
In this episode of “Brain Inspired,” @pgmid talks with Oscar Ferrante, Rony Hirschhorn and Alex Lepauvre about putting integrated information and global neuronal workspace theories of consciousness to the test. Listen now: thetransmitter.org/brain-inspired…
seven years after an initial meeting in seattle in march 2018, the results of the @ArcCogitate adversarial collaboration on theories of consciousness have just been published in @Nature. congratulations to the whole cogitate team! nature.com/articles/s4158…
we're advertising 2-3 postdoctoral positions to work at NYU on artificial consciousness and related topics at the intersection of AI and the philosophy of mind (possibly including AI mentality, AI interpretability, and AI welfare). deadline is march 30! philjobs.org/job/show/28878
an excellent @ScienceMagazine article on pre-natal consciousness, based on the recent NYU conference on infant consciousness. featuring thoughts from @cpassosf, @LorinaNaci, and others, with a cameo role for our survey of views on infant consciousness. science.org/content/articl…
the conference on infant consciousness at NYU this friday-saturday is going to be great. if you can't attend in person, there will be a live stream. eventbrite.com/e/1217079149499
try an original-style three-player turing test online!
We've relaunched @turingtestlive with a 3-party format where you speak to a human and an LLM at the same time. See if you can tell the difference between a human and an AI here: turingtest.live
a draft paper (for an invited talk at AAAI next month) with a philosophical analysis of work on mechanistic interpretability, with special attention to methods for propositional interpretability. arxiv.org/abs/2501.15740
a workshop focused on my work in philosophy and cognitive science, arranged by @SEFA_Filosofia (the spanish society for analytic philosophy), on tenerife in the canary islands, june 25-27 this year. submissions are welcome!
Save the date!!! XXXII SIUCC. Inter-University Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science David Chalmers @davidchalmers42 La Laguna, June 25-27, 2025 Extended drafts or long abstracts (not less than 900 words) should be sent to [email protected] before February 2th, 2025.
first ever meeting of the society for philosophy and neuroscience, coming up may 1-3 in st louis!
😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 & then submit your abstract so you can be there too! More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for details: philandneuro.com
The deadline for abstract submissions for the NYU conference on infant consciousness is this Friday, December 20th. If you work on this topic, please consider submitting an abstract for a talk or a poster. philevents.org/event/show/127…
three excellent symposia on my book reality+ have just come out, two mainly on the simulation hypothesis, one mainly on VR. contributors include @pgodfreysmith @eschwitz @DrSueSchneider @JorgNoller and others offline. for the articles and replies see consc.net/papers/reality….