The Hard Problem of Consciousness with David Chalmers

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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What exactly is consciousness, and why is it such a hard problem to solve? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly take you deep into the mysteries of consciousness and objective reality, David Chalmers, a philosopher and cognitive scientist.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.2	StarTalk begins right now.
0:14.7	This is StarTalk, special edition.
0:18.4	Neil deGrasse Tyson, you, your personal astrophysicist.
0:21.3	I got with me, Chuck Knight, Chuck, baby.
0:22.9	Hey, what's happening here?
0:24.0	All right, all right.
0:25.1	How you doing, sir?
0:26.1	I'm good, thank you.
0:27.3	Gary O'Reilly.
0:28.2	Yeah, thank you.
0:29.2	Thank you.
0:30.1	Love to have you as my co-host here.
0:32.1	It's a pleasure.
0:32.8	Yeah, we're doing yet another episode on consciousness.
0:37.9	Yeah.
0:38.6	When will we be done?
0:40.2	When we know what we need to know.
0:42.4	Okay.
0:42.8	And so this could be going on for a while.
0:45.0	I mean, it's not just consciousness.
0:46.1	It's consciousness and reality.
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