What if our puzzlement about consciousness is itself a clue? A physicist turns the hard problem into a striking argument ...

The hard problem of consciousness, as coined by the philosopher David Chalmers, asks: Why must we be conscious? Given that ...

Chalmers, now 50, was born and raised in Australia. His parents split up when he was five. “My father is a medical researcher, a pretty successful scientist and administrator in medicine in Australia… ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

One of the most difficult problems in neuroscience and philosophy is the study of consciousness. How does consciousness arise from physical matter? In a 1995 paper, philosopher David Chalmers dubbed ...

Kingdom Hearts anime series announced at D23 2026 for Disney Plus and Disney Channel, developed with franchise creator Tetsuya Nomura: why the Nobody mechanic is a philosophical zombie thought ...

Is it those "magical" moments, that augmented reality movie produced by our brains? For philosopher David Chalmers, "consciousness is one of the essential facts of human existence" while being "the ...

The philosopher David Chalmers claimed in the 1990s that we neuroscientists have tackled only what he calls the ‘easy’ part of the problem of consciousness, namely “where in the brain does it arise?” ...

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 ...