David Chalmers - Is the 'Soul' Immortal?

Chalmers covers almost all of the intellectual disciplines including physics, mathematics and the humanities. He also plays and performs music life. A modern day version of an ancient Greek philosopher. (perhaps the only deficiency is the inability to use a sword)

Just love David Chalmers; I’d like him to live forever too. He’d be really rockin’ that look in the afterlife.

I love his 80's rock hair do, he pulls it off epically. Get him a guitar and amp.

Rather than living forever in this world, I would love to let my soul travel across the multiverse and reincarnate in better world with happy family

David Chalmers has been my favorite philosopher since circa 1995. Yes, I'm that old.

Great interview with Chalmers. I wish Robert would do an interview with Peter Russel or Tom Campbell.

I loved when Chalmers helped prep Wayne and Garth for the big concert in Aurora!

Good conversation between two old friends.

Stay Chalm and get Closer To Truth

One of the oldest thoughts humans have.

D.C. . . . In my view has an incredibly well balanced realistic view and approach to this topic . Bravo.

I am a physicist and when I began I thought everything was just something mathematical. That is, colors, pain, etc., are just mathematical patterns in the physical world. It took me a while to realize, while that's true, I cannot describe color or the feeling of pain with math. They are separate things, and somehow they are linked together. As Chalmers said, we can map our mathematical brain signals corresponding to things like color. One of the possibilities I want to explore is stimulating the brain so we experience a new color.

Is there a relationship between consciousness and information, as the human mind contains information? Maybe information is the link between physical brain and mind / consciousness.

Qualia memory. Recall an experience from childhood - the first snowflakes on an evening before Christmas, the shops lit up and full of toys. A trip to the seaside - the bracing sea air, the sting of salt, the smell of sun cream on warm, wet bodies. Can you feel that subjective conscious experience as a memory? THAT'S your soul. There's not an atom of the adult you are now that was a part of your body when you were a child - all has been recycled since. And yet memories of the subjective experiences (qualia) remain. Have you ever experience flashbacks to such moments? Some are triggered (by smells, for example); some are bidden (have those two examples I gave above set off qualia flashbacks?) - and some are entirely spontaneous. So you have these spontaneous qualia flashbacks to events in your distant past that you can identify. I have (from time to time, but consistently across my life) had spontaneous qualia flashbacks that are entirely anomalous - from another time, another place. Typically, they feel like 1940s/1950s USA (I grew up in West London, UK). This is how I see the immortal soul; weak signals picked up by your consciousness. Much more on this over on my blog (easy to Google).

Fascinating :)

Individual consciousness is constructed out of awareness. As is everything subjective.

The soul is the conceptualization of awareness from the ego/self perspective. Awareness resides in the heart, once it is taken to the front, thoughts become secondary, and you can feel that everything is awarness. Objective evidence will never grasp this, and this has huge implications for the individual and society.

David Chalmers a dualist? Made my day. There is yet a glimpse of hope and a possible future for some philosophers!

When people talk about a soul, does this have something to do with agency and free will?

Considering they are hypothesizing about the none physical i would like to know what would constitutes evidence to them .