Nagel isn't making a Nagel isn't offering a positive claim here. He's only saying how problematic it is that we can't reconcile. And again, like depends on us really having intuitions about what it would mean to learn every physical fact about color perception. Like we can say we can we understand these things or can conceive of them, but I don't know what that means.
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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