David Chalmers Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science, New York University Co-Director, Center for Mind, Brain, & Consciousness, New York University David Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is the author of The Conscious Mind (1996), Constructing the World (2010), and _Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (2022). He co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and thePhilPapers Foundation. He has given the John Locke Lectures and has been awarded the Jean Nicod Prize. He is known for formulating the “hard problem” of consciousness, which inspired Tom Stoppard’s play The Hard Problem, and for the idea of the “extended mind,” which saysthat the tools we use can become parts of our minds. Papers / Presentations: Reality + (2022) Participant In: Coding and the New Human Phenotype October 15-16, 2022 Past Event From the level of DNA to that of phenotype, life may be viewed as an articulation of code. Within such a model, phenotypes are a kind of abstraction of the DNA code. Starting with the genome, the DNA winds its way through RNA, proteins, and cellular process outward into the world beyond, and in the… read more » Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Is the Universe a Metaverse? October 16, 2022 at 1:30pm Past Event Watch the video » Our panel will discuss the suggestion that we have been living in a sort of metaverse all along. This claim starts with the notion that the Universe evolves as one giant algorithmic computation, and that information is the basic substance. A variation on this line of thought asks the question: could we be living in… read more »
Coding and the New Human Phenotype October 15-16, 2022 Past Event From the level of DNA to that of phenotype, life may be viewed as an articulation of code. Within such a model, phenotypes are a kind of abstraction of the DNA code. Starting with the genome, the DNA winds its way through RNA, proteins, and cellular process outward into the world beyond, and in the… read more »
Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Is the Universe a Metaverse? October 16, 2022 at 1:30pm Past Event Watch the video » Our panel will discuss the suggestion that we have been living in a sort of metaverse all along. This claim starts with the notion that the Universe evolves as one giant algorithmic computation, and that information is the basic substance. A variation on this line of thought asks the question: could we be living in… read more »