David Chalmers
@davidchalmers.bsky.social
claudia passos ferreira's great #TED2025 talk is now online! find out all about consciousness in newborn babies!
Inside the mind of a newborn baby
What if newborn babies are more aware than we ever imagined? Philosopher and psychologist Claudia Passos Ferreira shares groundbreaking neuroscience showing that newborn babies — and possibly even lat...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
claudia passos ferreira's great #TED2025 talk is now online! find out all about consciousness in newborn babies!
the long-awaited video recording of the "25 Years of Consciousness" public event at the ASSC conference in NYC in june 2023 has been released: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6DH....
i have a few thoughts on the other site (sorry!) at x.com/davidchalmer....
i have a few thoughts on the other site (sorry!) at x.com/davidchalmer....
Public Event: 25 Years of Consciousness | ASSC 26, June 2023
YouTube video by NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness
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June 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
the long-awaited video recording of the "25 Years of Consciousness" public event at the ASSC conference in NYC in june 2023 has been released: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6DH....
i have a few thoughts on the other site (sorry!) at x.com/davidchalmer....
i have a few thoughts on the other site (sorry!) at x.com/davidchalmer....
we're advertising 2-3 postdoctoral positions to work at NYU on artificial consciousness and related topics at the intersection of AI and the philosophy of mind (possibly including AI mentality, AI interpretability, and AI welfare). deadline is march 30! philjobs.org/job/show/28878
Post-Doctoral Associate/Research Scientist, New York University
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Post-Doctoral Associate/Research Scientist, New York University
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March 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
we're advertising 2-3 postdoctoral positions to work at NYU on artificial consciousness and related topics at the intersection of AI and the philosophy of mind (possibly including AI mentality, AI interpretability, and AI welfare). deadline is march 30! philjobs.org/job/show/28878
a draft paper (for an invited talk at AAAI next month) with a philosophical analysis of work on mechanistic interpretability, with special attention to methods for propositional interpretability.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.15740
arxiv.org/abs/2501.15740
Propositional Interpretability in Artificial Intelligence
Mechanistic interpretability is the program of explaining what AI systems are doing in terms of their internal mechanisms. I analyze some aspects of the program, along with setting out some concrete c...
arxiv.org
January 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
a draft paper (for an invited talk at AAAI next month) with a philosophical analysis of work on mechanistic interpretability, with special attention to methods for propositional interpretability.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.15740
arxiv.org/abs/2501.15740
three excellent symposia on my book reality+ have just come out. two are mainly on the simulation hypothesis, one is mainly on VR. for all the articles and replies see consc.net/papers/reali....
Symposia on <i>Reality+</i>
consc.net
December 18, 2024 at 10:46 PM
three excellent symposia on my book reality+ have just come out. two are mainly on the simulation hypothesis, one is mainly on VR. for all the articles and replies see consc.net/papers/reali....
i know X is getting overrun with deepfakes, but this was unexpected. (no, that's not me after the first frame, and i'm not speaking at the 2025 congreso futuro.)
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x.com/congresofutu...
x.com
x.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:54 PM
i know X is getting overrun with deepfakes, but this was unexpected. (no, that's not me after the first frame, and i'm not speaking at the 2025 congreso futuro.)
x.com/congresofutu...
x.com/congresofutu...
my APA presidential address on "does thought require sensory grounding? from pure thinkers to large language models" is now published. i argue for no: so, even if LLMs lack sensory grounding, this doesn't entail that they can't think or understand.
David J. Chalmers, Does thought require sensory grounding? From pure thinkers to large language mode...
Does the capacity to think require the capacity to sense? A lively debate on this topic runs throughout the history of philosophy and now animates discussions of artificial intelligence. Many have ...
philpapers.org
November 30, 2023 at 3:04 PM
my APA presidential address on "does thought require sensory grounding? from pure thinkers to large language models" is now published. i argue for no: so, even if LLMs lack sensory grounding, this doesn't entail that they can't think or understand.
on X, i asked: who endorses the AGI scaling hypothesis: roughly, that scaling current systems and methods will lead to human-level AGI?
since bluesky is philosopher-heavy, let me also ask here: which philosophers endorse or have expressed sympathy with the hypothesis, or with something nearby?
since bluesky is philosopher-heavy, let me also ask here: which philosophers endorse or have expressed sympathy with the hypothesis, or with something nearby?
November 21, 2023 at 6:19 PM
on X, i asked: who endorses the AGI scaling hypothesis: roughly, that scaling current systems and methods will lead to human-level AGI?
since bluesky is philosopher-heavy, let me also ask here: which philosophers endorse or have expressed sympathy with the hypothesis, or with something nearby?
since bluesky is philosopher-heavy, let me also ask here: which philosophers endorse or have expressed sympathy with the hypothesis, or with something nearby?
November 1, 2023 at 8:25 PM
as a jury member, i'm delighted that this year's berggruen prize for philosophy and culture has been awarded to patricia hill collins.
$1 Million Berggruen Philosophy Prize Awarded to Patricia Hill Collins – Berggruen Institute
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October 23, 2023 at 9:48 PM
as a jury member, i'm delighted that this year's berggruen prize for philosophy and culture has been awarded to patricia hill collins.