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David Chalmers

Professor of Philosophy; Director of the Centre for Consciousness Studies, Australian National University

Chalmers’ book The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Oxford University Press, 1996) explores the "hard problem" of consciousness and advocates a nonreductive science of consciousness.  As director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona from 1999 to 2004, and as a founder of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, he has played a leading role in establishing the infrastructure for an interdisciplinary scientific approach to consciousness.  His article “The Matrix as Metaphysics” can be found on the official “The Matrix” website.