#34 — The Light of the Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 18 April 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with philosopher David Chalmers about the nature of consciousness, the challenges of understanding it scientifically, and the prospect that we will one day build it into our machines.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:09.1	This is Sam Harris.
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0:46.7	Today I'm speaking with David Chalmers.
0:48.9	David is a philosopher at NYU and also at the Australian National University.
0:54.6	He's the co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness at NYU.
0:59.6	David, as you'll hear, that we've never met was instrumental in my turning my mind toward
1:05.8	philosophy and science ultimately, because of the work he began doing on the topic of consciousness
1:11.7	in the early 90s.
1:13.4	And I found it fascinating to talk to David, his interests and intuitions in philosophy
1:18.8	align with my own to a remarkable degree.
1:21.7	We spend most of our time talking about consciousness and what it is and why it is so difficult to
1:28.4	understand scientifically, conceptually.
1:31.6	We talk about the hard problem of consciousness, which is a phrase he introduced into philosophy
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