Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.

Each episode will feature a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.

Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.

Thanks for listening and enjoy the best. So today I'm really excited to have my buddy David Chalmers on the podcast.

David is a philosopher at New York University and the Australian National University.

Officially, he's professor of philosophy and co-director of the Center for Mind,

Brain, and consciousness at NYU, and about 20% of the time he's professor of philosophy at ANU.

His work is in the philosophy of mind and in related areas of philosophy and cognitive science.

He's especially interested in consciousness, but he's also

interested in all sorts of other issues in the philosophy of mind and language,

metaphysics and epistemology, and the foundations of cognitive science, lots of, I just had had a nerd gasm there with all those

words. Thanks David so much for Chad with me tonight. Thanks God it's great to be

here in your podcast. Yeah well you know there we you know're talking about, you know, how I wanted to get you on the

podcast and such, you know, I promised you I wouldn't just ask all the standard questions,

you know, that everyone always asks you over and over you.

What is consciousness?

What is free well?

You know, but I think what is really interesting is that you're telling me

that you estimate about 30% probability that we are living in the matrix is that right?

Oh yeah I go I go back and forth anywhere between 10% and and 50% but definitely greater than zero definitely some chance what do you think those are big numbers

I never estimated it as that high but I think that we need to like really totally

define our terms and tell me what what living the matrix would mean to you.

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