The Importance of the Theoretical Background

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I think it's I got caught up so much in the subjective versus objective being you versus the rest of the world, but it's true that it's not a satisfying theory. So he says, for example, people are now told that an early age that all matter is really energy, but despite the fact that they know what is means, most of them never form a case. Never form a conception of what makes this claim true because they lack the theoretical background. And so like, yeah, if you tell me that matter is energy, I like that doesn't, but doesn't really help me. If I had the right theoretical background, I could understand what that is, but I

We try (with varying success) to wrap our heads around Thomas Nagel’s classic article “What is it Like to be a Bat?" Does science have the tools to give us a theory of consciousness or is that project doomed from the outset? Why do reductionist or functionalist explanations seem so unsatisfying? Is the problem that consciousness is subjective, or is it something about the nature of conscious experience itself? Is this ultimately an epistemological or metaphysical question? What are we talking about? Do we even know anymore?

Plus, the return of Mr. Robot! We talk about the big new mystery at the heart of the new season.

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