255. David Chalmers — Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There a Consensus on Climate Change?
Philosophy is almost, by definition, the too hard basket of problems that we haven't made enough progress on to get to the point of consensus yet. Many questions about key features of consciousness and how it connects to the brain has gradually over the last 30 years, turned into the kind of thing you can do science with. So i see the problem of consciousness as one of those things that could potentially move across that border from no consensus and philosophy to something like at least consensus on methods, and therefore science. But yets not. It's not there yet. There are going to be some problems like that. Those will be the ones we call philosophy.
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