I was also thinking about this, this inter, this subjectivity being, being fundamentally about our inability to understand anybody's experience. We were talking about how we went down this rabbit hole, and it was like, we felt like we knew less about it. And I read this philosophy of mine stuff, and like it literally sucks knowledge out of me. There are some things that I'm just not going to read because I know I won't understand it. It's like a European Rick and Morty episode. Who's really?
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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