- Lived:
- Born 1966, Sydney, Australia · now New York
- Tradition:
- Analytic philosophy of mind; the science of consciousness; "technophilosophy"
- The Big Idea:
- Explaining the brain's functions is hard science, but explaining why any of it feels like something from the inside is a different kind of problem entirely — the hard problem of consciousness — and no amount of ordinary physics may ever close that gap.
- If you remember one thing:
- He is the philosopher who named the hard problem, imagined zombies to test materialism, argued that your phone is part of your mind — and who thinks virtual worlds are real ones.