David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the “hard problem” of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a thought ...

THE Australian-born philosopher David Chalmers has long made waves in the world of consciousness. In 1994, at the age of just 28, he coined the phrase “the hard problem of consciousness” to describe ...

There’s a famous scene in The Matrix where Neo goes to see The Oracle. He meets another potential in the waiting room: a young child who seemingly bends a spoon with his mind. Noticing Neo’s ...

“Consciousness is hard to define. You rapidly find yourself going around in a circle,” said David Chalmers, world-renowned philosopher of consciousness. “Some would say a being is conscious if there ...

Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy, by David J. Chalmers (W. W. Norton, 544 pp., $32) When Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta, it was not a simple case of rebranding for ...

We no longer think twice about going online to work, socialize, play, learn, meet with medical professionals, or attend funerals. Supposedly, it’s just a matter of time before we’re strapping on ...

On a muggy June night in New York City, more than 800 neuroscientists, philosophers and curious members of the public packed into an auditorium. They came for the first results of an ambitious ...

Virtual reality technology is advancing fast. Many predict that a "Metaverse" of virtual worlds will be the next stage of the internet. We may eventually have complete simulated universes as in *The ...

I’d like to think most people have seen Anil Seth’s TED talk about hallucinating reality. At least 13.6 million have, anyway. I most certainly did. When it came out in 2017, I found it fascinating. He ...