Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-01-29
Books mentioned on David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
David Chalmers is a philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and consciousness.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Feeling of Life Itself
Discussed“actually I just got this new book by Christophe cook just came in the feeling of life itself my consciousness is widespread but can't be computed”
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Zen and Horseback Riding
Discussed“actually my colleague here at NYU Tom Nagel wrote a book called mind and cosmos a few years ago where we are for this teleological view of evolution toward consciousness saying this let the problems for Darwinism”
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Cosmos 2
Discussed“actually my colleague here at NYU Tom Nagel wrote a book called mind and cosmos a few years ago where we are for this teleological view of evolution toward consciousness saying this let the problems for Darwinism”
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Mind and Cosmos
Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel is a concise philosophical work that critiques the materialist and neo-Darwinian frameworks of the world, arguing for the fundamental limits of reductionist science in explaining consciousness.
Discussed“actually my colleague here at NYU Tom Nagel wrote a book called mind and cosmos a few years ago where we are for this teleological view of evolution toward consciousness saying this let the problems for Darwinism”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and you've also mentioned this hilarious idea maybe tongue-in-cheek maybe not that there may be simulations within simulations arbitrarily stacked levels and that there may be that we may be in level 42 oh yeah along those stacks referencing Hitchhiker's Guide to the universe”