My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.