The Dark Army and the Death of Angela

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Leonard: The first big thing that happens in episode one is it's a very cool way that it opens. You know, the scene of Price walking away and her getting shot in the distance is perhaps just there as an emotional tool. On the other hand, he didn't show us her, you know, the bloody corpse. That was the first big bombshell. Then at the end of episode two, there is a huge bombshell. And we'll talk about what happens in between. But we might as well just say it right now that Elliot has a third personality that there is Elliot, there's Mr. Robot. There's a third that we've seen, but that neither Elliot nor

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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