# David Chalmers **Domain:** Philosophy of Mind / Virtual Reality **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness]], [[Reality+]], [[Hard Problem of Consciousness]], [[Virtual Reality]] --- ## Definition David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind known for formulating the hard problem of consciousness and for defending the philosophical reality of virtual worlds. ## Corpus Context His work joins two lines in [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]: the unresolved relation between physical process and experience, and the claim that virtual implementation need not make lived reality unreal. ## Key Insight **This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.** ## See Also [[Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness]], [[Reality+]], [[Hard Problem of Consciousness]], [[Virtual Reality]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]