For example, Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter argue that anything capable of passing the Turing test is necessarily conscious, while David Chalmers argues that a philosophical zombie could pass the test, yet fail to be conscious.

David Chalmers has called this the hard problem of consciousness.

Naturalistic dualism comes from Australian Philosopher, David Chalmers ( born 1966 ) who argues there is an explanatory gap between objective and subjective experience that cannot be bridged by reductionism because consciousness is, at least, logically autonomous of the physical properties upon which it supervenes.

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* Chalmers, David " On Sense and Intension ".

For example, Jerry Fodor ( 1980 ) argues for narrow content ( although he comes to reject that view in his 1995 ), while David Chalmers ( 2002 ) argues for a two dimensional semantics according to which the contents of mental states can have both wide and narrow content.

* Chalmers, David ( 2002 ) " The Components of Content ", in Chalmers ( ed.

David Chalmers argues that quantum theories of consciousness suffer from the same weakness as more conventional theories.

David Chalmers considers the consciousness of rocks as well as thermostats, although he eschews the notion that rocks are conscious:

* David Chalmers ( 1996 ) The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, Oxford University Press, New York, ISBN 0-19-511789-1 ( Pbk.

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* April 20 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher

* The Matrix as Metaphysics by David Chalmers

Similar arguments have been proposed by David Chalmers.

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David Chalmers says that we can imagine that there are zombies, or persons who are physically identical to us in every way but who lack consciousness.

Critics of Dennett's approach, such as David Chalmers and Thomas Nagel, argue that Dennett's argument misses the point of the inquiry by merely redefining consciousness as an external property and ignoring the subjective aspect completely.

David Chalmers recently developed a thought experiment inspired by the movie The Matrix in which substance dualism could be true: Consider a computer simulation in which the bodies of the creatures are controlled by their minds and the minds remain strictly external to the simulation.

The zombie argument is based on a thought experiment proposed by David Chalmers.

Past chats included people such as Ray Kurzweil, David Chalmers, Stuart Kauffman, Christopher Michael Langan and Robert Wright.

The article was originally published in 1974 in The Philosophical Review, and has been reprinted several times, including in The Mind's I ( edited by Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter ), Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology ( edited by Ned Block ), Nagel's Mortal Questions ( 1979 ), The Nature of Mind ( edited by David M. Rosenthal ), and Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings ( edited by David J. Chalmers ).

The useful suggestion of Professor David Hawkins which considers culture as a third stage in biological evolution fits quite beautifully then with our suggestion that science has provided us with a rather successful technique for building protective artificial environments.

The appointment of Gilbert B. Devey as General Manager of VecTrol Engineering, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, a leading manufacturer of thyratron and silicon controlled rectifier electrical controls, has been announced by David B. Peck, Vice President, Special Products.

`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.

One of our foremost jurists, David Dudley Field, has gone so far as to call this provision `` the greatest achievement ever made in the course of human history ''.

That you have refused to drive him into the family business or push him into a profession so you can say at the club, `` Of course David has known since he was twelve he wanted to be an engineer '' -- or a lawyer, or an editor??

Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

David Suchet has starred as the eponymous detective in Agatha Christie's Poirot in the ITV series since 1989.

David Fontana however on the subject of parapsychology has said that " the evidence for survival is so strong that anyone who cares to study it is likely to end up convinced ".

The biologist Rupert Sheldrake has supported a form of animism which David Skrbina calls " a unique form of panpsychism ".

( Paradoxically, in the modern version it is the rebellious son who has the first name " David ".

She expressed reservations over the eventual winner David Cameron, feeling that he did not, like the other candidates, have a proven track record, and she was later a leading figure in parliamentary opposition to his A-List policy, which she has said is " an insult to women ".

This street pattern has been preserved through Jerusalem's later history ; the western cardo is Suq Khan ez-Zeit ( Olive-oil Inn Market ), the southern decumanus is both the Street of the Chain and Suq el-Bazaar ( Bazaar Market ; called David Street by Israelis ), the eastern cardo is Al-wad Road ( Valley road ), and the northern decumanus is now the Via Dolorosa.

After Abigail reveals to Nabal what she has done, " YHWH struck Nabal and he died ," ( v. 38 ), after which David married her.

Afrobeat has profoundly influenced important contemporary producers and musicians like Brian Eno and David Byrne, who credit Fela Kuti as an essential muse.

This record has since been eclipsed by Bobby Moore, Peter Shilton and then David Beckham.

After a long war Ishbaal is murdered hoping for reward from David, but David has them killed for killing God's anointed.

David is incensed that anyone should have killed Saul, even as an act of mercy, since Saul was anointed by Samuel, and has the individual responsible killed.

The Deuteronomist's negative view of Saul and desire to show David as the first real king of Israel has obscured Saul's real achievements.

Kings begins with the death of David, to whom Yahweh, the god of Israel, has promised an eternal dynasty, and the succession of his son Solomon.

Pace had opposed the planting of the grove of memorial trees calling it paganism, and his group has chopped down David Koresh's tree and smashed his plaque, to prevent it from being used for idolatry.

David Kusche pointed out a common problem with many of the Bermuda Triangle stories and theories: " Say I claim that a parrot has been kidnapped to teach aliens human language and I challenge you to prove that is not true.

David MacDonald, a Catholic apologist, has written in regards to paragraph 1428, that " this endeavor of conversion is not just a human work.

Cognitive science has a pre-history traceable back to ancient Greek philosophical texts ( see Plato's Meno ); and certainly must include writers such as Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Benedict de Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Cabanis, Leibniz and John Locke.