The Strange Relationship Between Tyrell and Elliot

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Tyrell's always just not been, I don't know. He's always been Joanna Wellick's husband to me. There was that, there was that scene at the end of season one where he runs into Joanna wellick who clearly recognizes him and talks to him in Norwegian. And she and Tyrell gave off kind of vibes. Like, she gave off a vibe that's very much like his mother. But it doesn't totally fit. It is weird that he tried to kiss her and didn't remember that she was his sister because that is not something that is consists like the fact that he wouldn't know that he had a sister is weird. They do have that

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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