david chalmers

Philosopher of mind and consciousness. Known for work on the hard problem" of consciousness." David Chalmers positions consciousness as the "hard problem" irreducible to physical processes, proposing it as a fundamental feature of the universe akin to spacetime—a view he terms naturalistic dualism. He argues that while AI systems like LLMs currently lack subjective experience, future architectures replicating fine-grained causal brain organization could achieve consciousness, with a >20% likelihood within a decade David Chalmers defends naturalistic dualism, asserting consciousness as a fundamental property AI could instantiate if replicating causal brain structures. He estimates a 20% chance of machine consciousness by 2030, urging ethical frameworks for synthetic qualia[Earlier Answer].