I think Nagle wants to say, I don't know what it's like to be you when you're hungry. Like we both have the same content in our mind. So that really does boil down to the problem of other minds, right? Which I think is a problem in like a philosophical problem in one sense, but it doesn't seem to be the same as the problem of understanding conscious experience.
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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