David Chalmers

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TDTheoretical Drive

  10 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  9 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  6 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  6 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Karl FristonCARTOGRAPHER

  Free energy principle — minds as inference engines minimizing surprise.

• HusserlCARTOGRAPHER

  Bracket your assumptions and return to the things themselves. Phenomenology as rigorous science.

• Frank JacksonCARTOGRAPHER

  Mary's Room — what physicalism leaves out about the redness of red.

• David LewisCARTOGRAPHER

  On the Plurality of Worlds — every possibility is a real world.

• AnaximanderCARTOGRAPHER

  The boundless (apeiron) is the source of all things — pre-Socratic first physics.

• AnaxagorasCARTOGRAPHER

  Nous (mind) orders an infinite mixture of seeds into a cosmos.

Concepts where David Chalmers sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• Consciousness
  Why is there something it's like to be you? Why isn't the lights-on, no-one-home alternative just as physically possible?
• The mind-body problem
  How does the wet electrical mass between your ears produce the experience of being you?

Short exercises in the same tradition as David Chalmers's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Argument mapping →

  Draw the structure of an argument as boxes and arrows. See its load-bearing walls.

• Reductio ad absurdum →

  Take a claim seriously, run it to its logical limit, see if you still believe it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.