Chalmers and Semantics

Re-reading Chalmers Johnson

Byrne and Hall on Everett and Chalmers

It is argued that the criticism of Byrne and Hall (1999) of the argument of Chalmers (1996) in favor of the Everett-style interpretation

Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Gothenburg, Sweden

The objective behind Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) is to allow users to interact with computers through familiar tangible objects, thereby taking advantage of the richness of the tactile world combined with the power of computer-based simulations. TUIs “give physical form to digital information, employing physical artifacts both as representations and controls for computational media” [1]. Th...

CHALMERS Face verification using biometric hashing

Face-based biometrics approach has proved to be robust and efficient for verification systems (comparison with a reference database). While it opens the door to a range of applications principally aimed at securing areas, it fails to get its way to high-security systems, such as banking transactions. In this thesis, we outline an attempt to take a first step in the latter direction, by generati...

David Chalmers ' s The Conscious Mind BRIAN

David Chalmers's book is impressive in many ways. I admire the great skill, incisiveness and breadth of vision with which he conducts his argument. Many of his controversial theses and intuitions I find congenial. Unfortunately I do not believe the book's central thesis, namely, that facts about consciousness are not physical facts. Much of the book is devoted either to establishing this, or to...