The Rules for Mystery Writers

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"There are these rules for mystery writers that were sort that that somebody put down a long time ago. And like one of them is essentially like you have to give the reader enough information to like plausibly arrive at the solution or else is just unfair," he said. "He's respected his audience so far. So he knows that we're thinking this and he doesn't want to disappoint us." He added: "My guess is we won't be told which way to interpret it"

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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