The Third Personality in the Hallucination

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I think that it's plausible that that's who Elliot has been talking to the whole time. He's not been breaking the fourth wall at all. It could be something that he means sort of only metaphorically, but is actually a separate personality that represents the audience or something. So then in the hallucination, in your view, the, you know, this idea of a monster I found my monster, who's my monster keeps coming up. That could be this kind of third personality, the one that does the dirty work and gets shit done.

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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