Elliot and Mr. Robot

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From Darlene's perspective, it is the same, like bag of bones that she's talking to. She wouldn't be able to distinguish. So we know boom, there's another identity. And then we go to that scene and Elliot's a kid. He's sitting in Tyrell's chair. I've been looking all over for you. You shouldn't be sitting there. That's not your seat. What? They're not ready yet. We need to wait. For what? The other one. It's just as Elliot's kind of way of manifesting his confusion.

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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