David Chalmers supports the irreducibility of conscious experience by appealing to conceivability, arguing that conscious experience can always be 'abstracted away' from reductive explanations, as evidenced by the logical possibility of philosophical zombies, which are exact replicas of a person that lack conscious experience.

Authors

• Person: David Chalmers Organization: Oxford University Press
  The Conscious Mind - Wikipedia

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• The Conscious Mind - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org David Chalmers · Oxford University Press via serper

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• David Chalmers entity
• The hard problem of consciousness concept
• conscious experience concept
• philosophical zombies concept