Tyrell 2: A Bizarre Investigation

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I always thought that Elliot was Tyrell early on in the season after I'd kind of figured out that he and Mr. Robot, that was barely hidden that he was Mr. Robot. The way they were shooting the Tyrell scenes just seemed really bizarre. But it just doesn't make sense. It's unbelievable how much of a somewhere between a homage and just a ripoff of Fight Club it was in terms of just how that stuff's shot. That would make sense if in that scene where they're in the boardroom, little Elliot is Elliot, you know, Mr. Robot's not there. And the mom is the third personality. She wouldn't say then we would expect for

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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