How long does it take to read The Conscious Mind?
In Search of a Fundamental Theory
The Conscious Mind by David J. Chalmers takes about 7 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 423 pages, about 116,325 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory is an extended study of the problem of consciousness. After setting up the problem, David Chalmers argues that a reductive explanation of consciousness is impossible and that if one takes consciousness seriously, one has to go beyond a strict materialist framework. In the second half of the book, Chalmers moves toward a positive theory of consciousness with fundamental laws linking the physical and the experiential in a systematic way. Finally, he uses the ideas and arguments developed earlier to defend a form of strong artificial intelligence and to analyze some problems in the foundations of quantum mechanics.
Subjects: Dualism, Mind and body, Consciousness, Philosophy of mind., Philosophy of mind, Mind and body.
