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. He is perhaps best known for formulating the hard
problem of consciousness which could be stated as "why does the
feeling which accompanies awareness of sensory information exist at
all?" This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence
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"LexPodcast".  Here's the outline of the episode. On some
podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump
to that time. 00:00 - Introduction 02:23 - Nature of reality: Are
we living in a simulation? 19:19 - Consciousness in virtual reality
27:46 - Music-color synesthesia 31:40 - What is consciousness?
51:25 - Consciousness and the meaning of life 57:33 - Philosophical
zombies 1:01:38 - Creating the illusion of consciousness 1:07:03 -
Conversation with a clone 1:11:35 - Free will 1:16:35 -
Meta-problem of consciousness 1:18:40 - Is reality an illusion?
1:20:53 - Descartes' evil demon 1:23:20 - Does AGI need
conscioussness? 1:33:47 - Exciting future 1:35:32 - Immortality