S fiefire: I think we don't currently have the proper conceptual schemes to try to understand consciousness. But there's something about being human that would make that like, impossible for us to do. He says some of his neuro scientists seem to miss entirely the hard problem. They might say that a robot could do science, ri like, theyre just, you don't consciousness. Maybe a robot could, but they're not robots. They have to, the only way they do science is consciously. The lext freedman castic came out recently and i've actually been convinced by some of my colleagues, that dualism might not be as untrue as i thought it
It’s the topic voted on by our beloved Patreon patrons, panpsychism! David and Tamler delve into the resurgent debate over whether consciousness is the fundamental stuff that makes up the universe. We hoped we might be entering Miyazaki land - river spirits, benevolent radishes, a universal mind. But is this just the same old philosophy of mind debate with different words? Are there any stakes to this debate or is it purely terminological? Plus – we answer some last-minute questions from listeners on dissertations, Ukraine, pseudoscience, and the music from "The Shield."
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