There are about 15% of people who cannot see 3D if they go to a 3D movie, right? So this seems very simple, but like they put on the glasses and the movie looks exactly the same to them. I've hosted dinner parties and movie screenings where people come over and they can't see in 3D so they just don't like it as a technology or tool. And we think about how many different kinds of ways to see and interact with the world there are. It's quite possible and plausible that our preferences are shaped by this underlying phenomenology. There are people out there that have no inner monologue, that have no voice on the inside of their head,
How does the mind work? What makes us sad? What makes us laugh? Despite advances in neuroscience, the answers to these questions remain elusive. Neuroscientist Patrick House talks about these mysteries and about his book Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. House's insights illuminate not just what we know and don't know about our minds--he also helps us understand what it means to be human.